Rental Property Investor · Buckley, WA · Member since 2020 · 76 posts · 14 votes
I’ve partnered with a friend to help get him a condo by doing a house hack and we’re looking for suggestions on door locks on bedrooms and the front door.
Keypads all the way. I have 5 "doors" now at 3 properties and they all have separate keys to keep track of, make copies of, and potentially have floating around out there in ex-tenant's possession. Changing locks isn't hard but its annoying and having a fistful of keys around my house aggravates me. I will be switching to keypad only doors from now on. I rent out two bedrooms separately at one unit (a townhome), but I don't feel that its necessary to keep keyed/keypad locks on the bedroom doors. They're just the usual bedroom doors with locks that lock from the inside when someone is in there. If the situation is such at your property that you want locked bedroom doors, I would still go with a keypad.