"Phil L" wrote in message
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Nightjar wrote:
Do you have the authority to have new keys cut for your front door? If
not then neither would the previous tenant and you should be able to
find out from the landlord just how many keys have been authorised for
your lock. If that matches the number you have, you don't have a
problem.

Authority?

Who could stop anyone who held the key in the past, from having multiple
copies made?

Normal key copy places won't copy it (they don't have the blanks)

The authorised places ask for "proof" FSVO proof.



FWIW, if more than one person has ever lived there, it's guaranteed that
there's a spare key somewhere

I have a spare, but if two people lived there (which I suspect) there might
be a third.

tim