Cut Two Keys (and make sure they work)

Cut two Keys (and make sure they work)

After all the cleaning from Day 8, take a break and head to the hardware store. If you live in a single family home, you may not even know where the key is! You probably don't use the front door much, but agents showing the home will.

One key will go in the lockbox and the other stays with me. The lockbox shows me who has shown the house and at what time the key tray was accessed, so I can always track down the agent that last had the key...should they accidentally take it. The other key is for times in between -  an agent getting locked out, or if the lockbox dies with the key inside - true story.

Either way, cut two keys for the front door and make sure they work. Sometimes the locking mechanism itself will rust and the key won't work. I know I've been stranded at a showing on a vacant property and the key just would not work. How embarrassing! And my Buyers are getting hotter and crankier by the second! 

If you're testing your lock and it sticks, or doesn't work at all, grab a can of graphite lock lubricant. Works like a charm!

***Note: I always use an electronic lockbox. Too many times buyers are given the code to the combination lockbox (or worse the code to the keypad on your front door) and will view the property unaccompanied. With an electronic lockbox the agent has to be present to show, and it automatically tells me Who and What Time the key was accessed.

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