Protect Your New Home Investment
The phone call just came in, your bid has been accepted and you are just days away from owning your very own home. As you start drawing up lists of all the little things that you’re going to need within days of moving in to your precious, replacement locks for all exterior doors and windows should be near the top of your list.
It’s very easy for people to have keys made, give them away to visitors or family members, and then forget to get them back as the company leaves or the kids go away to university. In the flurry of packing and moving to a new location, it is very easy to forget the Mrs. MacGillicuddy from down the road a piece got a key last summer when she looked after Mr. Cuddles (the family cat) and came in to water the plants.
If you don’t want either Mrs. MacGillicuddy coming in to check out what on earth the Jones family has done with the enormous philodendron that used to grace the living room window, then changing the locks should be a high priority within a couple of days of moving in. Mrs. MacGillicuddy is a love, but she has been getting a little fuzzy lately and could easily have missed seeing the Jones’ moving van that was parked in the driveway for the past fortnight.
If you’re moving into a house where a marriage breakup has occurred, there is also the potential for an ex-spouse thinking that they can just come in during the middle of the night since they still have that spare key and who knew their vehicle would suffer a breakdown ten minutes away on the motor way.
