Rental Key Entry - College Students??

[Kevin C.]

House will be rented to 6-10 Students...  What would you recommend for entry?  Various options- Keyless?  Landlordlocks?  Kwikst ?  

Thanks

[Aaron Montague]

@Kevin C. 

Honestly college kids don't lose their keys any more than anyone else does.  In my limited experience (2 years x 2 duplexes) I had 1 lost key with college students.  It was a grad student.  He paid for both locks to be switched.  ~$300 all told.

My fraternity house had code locks on the two main entrances.  Expensive, but easy to change the codes.  No keys for any of the 40 people living there.  Not sure I'd recommend this for random college kids however.  We had a strict policy of who got the codes outside the frat.  And it changed regularly.

Key cards seem like a good bet.  Easy to slip into the wallet, hard to lose.