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What do you do when STR tenants lock themselves out?
3x this week I had to go to an STR and unlock the door. The D.F.'s left the key inside when the left and locked the door. I'm thinking about hiding a front door key around the house in something that is not the mailbox. What do you do?
D.F. = Dumb Folks or something like that.
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@Paul Sandhu For a simple solution, you could do what I did with all my rentals and just eliminate the keyed door handle. Just use a keyed deadbolt and a non-keyed door handle (usually called a closet door handle).
With that setup, you really can’t lock yourself out. Switching over to that setup completely eliminated my tenants locking themselves out.