Buying a New Vancouver Home? Change the Locks
You know the purchase of your new home in Vancouver is final when you are handed the keys.
But no, you shouldn't consider it final, and probably shouldn't move your valued possessions inside until you do one more thing: Get rid of those keys.
That's right – before you finish moving in, change the locks.
I'm not suggesting you should mistrust the sellers. They're not apt to come back and steal your belongings.
But the sellers aren't the only ones who have had access to those keys in the last few weeks – and possibly in the past few years. Did they leave a key with a neighbor when they were vacationing? Did they give a key to a service provider at some time in the past? Just because a key was returned doesn't mean it wasn't…