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Originally Posted by jimhoward
Wow that is so bizarre. If the tenants were intent on changing the locks, I wonder why they didn't just go to Home Depot buy a new lockset for the front door and replace it. Its a 1 hour job. Their more devious method seems more difficult and expensive.
And I wonder why they did it? Were they planning to squat? Or did they want to block landlord access during the tenancy? Answers not expected, just questions in my own mind.
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They were planning on taking possession of the house. It's a "thing" that happens, it's a scam, fraud - people get legal possession of a property by simply changing their legal address. It becomes incredibly difficult to kick them out at that point. Eviction is much easier to do, if the tenant doesn't have that address as their legal address on record.