Valparaiso turns over with Eglin AFB's rotation cycle — every PCS season, homes change hands, rentals swap tenants, and an enormous number of keys quietly go unaccounted for. A lock checklist belongs on the PCS binder right next to the movers' inventory.
Moving in
Rekey every exterior door before the first night — landlord permission is routine, and the previous tenant's spare keys are a genuine unknown. Photograph door and hardware condition the same day for the deposit file.
Moving out
Collect every key you issued — cleaners, neighbors, teenagers' friends — and return the counted set. If you installed a keypad, factory-reset it; leaving your codes behind is leaving your name on somebody else's door.
For landlords in the cycle
Rekey on every turnover as policy, not judgment. Tenant quality is irrelevant — outstanding-key risk compounds with every cycle you skip, and Valparaiso's cycles come fast.
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