What to do with the keys???

phoebe1989seb

agrinnall wrote: »

Just do what the sellers of my mum's house did and leave a door unlocked so that we (and indeed anybody) could just walk in anway - it actually proved useful to us as it took until late in the day to actually get the keys, by which time the movers had got everything into the house.

This happened to us a couple of house purchases back (in 2007) - our vendors left a conservatory door unlocked when they departed and by the time we had made the three hour journey to our new home, our removers had almost completed unloading the first lot

Davesnave

nicegirl wrote: »

If I was buying a house from someone and they told me they'd left the keys under a flower pot I would not be impressed at all! :eek:

I don't think it's about impressing anyone, just practicality.

Although one set of keys for our place was under a brick, the rest were with a relative in the village, but neither we nor that person wanted to be tied-down to an exact time when they'd be collected.

And, of course, a week later most of the keys were redundant anyway, as one of the first jobs on moving into a new place is to change the locks.