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Kevin Terpening
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Minneapolis, MN
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Tenant damaged lock; no one claims responsibility

Kevin Terpening
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Minneapolis, MN
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I inherited four tenants on 4plex, rented the attic as an art studio. 3 units share a common entrance. 

This morning I get a text from one saying a key is broken in the lock and it doesn't open/unlock.

I went there and replaced the lock, provided new keys to two of the tenants there (who didn't have a broken key) and so using elimination, figured it was the 3rd tenant.

Texted the tenant and they claim their key works fine and they didn't break anything.

Because I can't prove who did it, assuming all 3 return non-broken keys (and for two of them I don't know what their key looked like before hand i.e. style/coloring etc) do I just eat it or is there another way to determine who the culprit is?

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