Why do renters install

Kids!

Because they dont feel safe and now if you need access you have a problem, I dont allow them and remove them.

Put in the lease that holes cannot be drilled in doors and door jambs under penalty of repair costs.

the home I live in was a rental for awhile. wierdly someone installed a chain lock for the door to under the cellar steps. never did understand that.

maybe someone was looking for a safe area from a drunk or other abuser?

Some people are modesty psychotics.

Let the pet go downstairs but not the baby?

no the door is just a partial closet under the steps, not high enough to even stand in, a tiny box with the chain lock inside

Those are held in place by no more than 1" screws, and that screwed into half inch trim. They don't hold up to a kick, or a shoulder. And then the jamb is ripped to shreds.

Steve

What the chain on the inside of the outside?

Bob

I take it you are referring only to "keyed chain door locks", and not the "unkeyed" ones.

If it's "unkeyed" ones, are you saying the problem is that you don't have access when someone is inside and you announce yourself but they still won't let you in?

If that's the case I think you may need to remove the tenants, and not just those unkeyed chain locks.

Jeff

My wife always make me make sure the chain is on when we go to bed. We have a dead bolt lock too. But, she insists we need the extra security. Like if the dead bolt fals us the chain lock is sure to save us.

BR

Someday knock on the front door.When the wife opens it, with the chain in place, reach in with the bolt cutters and snip it in half.

She'll hate you forever.

Like somebody else pointed out, almost all chain locks are only mounted with crappy little soft screws, usually just into the trim on the inside of the doorframe. A hard shove will tear them out of the trim. Hotels do a little better in recent years, especially with those metal loop locks that flip over a post lagged into the doorframe. I have used real screws into something solid for a few relatives that insisted on having chain locks, but the weak point does then indeed become the chain.

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Next time I'm in a hotel I think I'll bring my tool bad and get me one!

No, just unkeyed ones. They put them on bedroom doors. Why would you need one on the bedroom in your own house????

No need to go to jail- Google 'swing bar door guard' for pictures and vendors. I was remembering incorrectly- the post goes on the door, not the jamb side. Most of the pictures showed the same crappy little screws as the chain latches, though, so be prepared to find real ones. Like most door hardware, I suspect 'trade only' vendors that don't show up in Google and only sell to locksmiths, may have better ones.

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To keep Uncle Nasty from visiting during the night.

If you hear someone breaking in the front door, having a chain on your bedroom door also could give you a little more time to call 9-1-1.

To keep out nosey landlords.