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No, you may not get the keys early!!
Time and time again I receive requests from buyers to get the keys at the final walk through.  Granted, the closing is usually the next morning, but yet, you don't own this property yet.  The owner has every right to still enter and occupy this home until it is closed and they deserve the privacy to do so.  Now some buyers beg and plead and make promises that they won't enter the property until the morning, but no offense I can't trust you.  Not that you aren't trustworthy, but the pressure will get to you and before you know there you stand the night before closing inserting key into door knob. 
Early on as a Real Estate agent I let a couple of people have keys early who swore on the lives of their children that they would not go into the property before they owned it.  The last time I gave a key to a buyer early, they started to move in before they owned the property.  I drove by about 2 hours after the final walk through to find a moving truck out front and everything moved in.  On another occasion I found the buyer and their whole family ... more

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