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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by jacquesm on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:35AM (#27949905)
Same in Northern Canada. When buying a house there usually at the end of the financial part of the transfer of a house you get the keys. The previous owners rather sheepishly admitted they didn't have them. Lawyer pipes up 'then we'll have to change the locks'. Owners say that's going to be a lot of work because the doors never had any locks in the first place. We kept it like that.
Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by wccrawford on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:23PM (#27950401)
I can't even imagine not changes the locks on a house you just bought. (Unless, as in your case, locks aren't even desired.) Even if the previous owner had no malicious intent, they might have accidentally kept a key that someone else could get ahold of... Or they might have given out a key, etc. There's no good reason to avoid it, IMO.
Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by wincy on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:56PM (#27950768)
As a middle point, I’ve been living at my house in the Midwest for 4 years now and while we have locks, I didn’t changed them out from the previous owners. I suppose they could have some extra keys but I trust that they don’t and won’t come into my house (and unless they’re playing a really long game, they haven’t, and the previous owners live fairly close as we got some letters from their child’s daycare accidentally sent to us).
Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by bittercynic on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:32PM (#27950482)
It's also a fun thing to do.

The re-key kit is only a few bucks, and it's a pretty simple process, and you get to enjoy the ingenuity contained in the lock while you work on it.