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"Changing the locks and sorting it out later" is incredibly illegal. Your "advice" is useless.

• jessaustin 9y ago
  It's not illegal to keep out trespassers. Maybe one wouldn't change the locks on the first day, but after seeing one group of carousing teenagers with whom one had no contractual relationship replaced by a different such group, it would be pretty safe to shut the whole thing down.
  • URSpider94 9y ago
    In most jurisdictions, housing courts are heavily, heavily, heavily biased towards tenants over landlords. Landlords can't change the locks without a valid eviction order. Doing so is likely to delay their eventual success in court - if the scammers can focus the judge on an illegal lock-out, that's going to be the first issue decided.
    • jessaustin 9y ago
      Sure, but in the meantime they aren't generating gigantic AirBnB fines. It seems that in this case the locks had already been changed to some sort of remote electronic device by the "tenants" themselves?
  • mjcl 9y ago
    My experience is from California, but I've worked for a property management company. You'd be in no way safe in changing the locks, unless you gave the tenants on the lease new keys as you were changing them.