I was walking around a neighborhood where some new homes were being built. And I like to look inside the homes that are being built, so I walked inside. 

And I noticed what could be a huge problem. A problem that could affect a lot of buyers of new homes. It could cause them to be burglarized, or worse, rather easily.

And it's all because of a problem of securing the house at an early stage.

What I'm talking about is how, apparently, some builders just leave the keys to the house that they're building out in the open inside of the unlocked house as it's being built.

This was a day that nobody was working in the house and the keys to the house were just hanging up by the front door just as you entered. The door was left wide open.

So what could happen is a bad guy could take one of those keys, have a copy made, and then weeks to years after somebody moves in to the house after it's completed, can enter the house using the copy of the key and steal everything they want, or much worse.

The bad guy could be anyone. It could be a subcontractor hired to install flooring, or to do framing, or it could be somebody completely unrelated to building the home who just happened to walk inside and see the keys hanging there out in the open.

Keys to a home should never be left unattended, but that is apparently what does happen if this one instance is any indication. I wonder how often this happens.