My brother is a slumlord. Immediately after the 2008 crash, he was loading up on empty houses. The houses weren’t ‘just vacated mere days ago’ by a hard-working proletariat, they usually had just come out of probate and were being dumped by out-of-state heirs, OR the family had been riding out the foreclosure process for almost 2 years. Either way, the first thing we had to do was mow the weeds and change the locks. We had a Rubbermaid tub filled with doorknobs and deadbolts, and we tried to re-use them when possible, but frequently the original set had been installed so poorly (non-standard hole placement), we had to replace the door, too. That was 35 houses, so about 70 exterior doors. Multiply that by an ENTIRE CAMPUS…that’s a lot of knobs and keys.
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