Several things to try.
Check with neighbors to see if any if them have the same locks. If so, maybe
they remember who installed them.
Contact a locksmith to see if they can make a key to match.
You might be able to super glue a matching tool to the screw & unscrew it. Be
careful to not glue the tool to the latch!
Drill into the latch around the screws & break the latch away.
Peace,
Pat
Pat Horne
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On Oct 21, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com> wrote:

New house was a foreclosure. It was 'secured' at some point. One of the
security features was locking sash latches in all the windows. They did not
leave a key to those locks. The sash latches are secured with security/one-way
screws that cannot just be unscrewed.
They're also pretty hard and so close to the window pane itself that drilling
them with a reverse drill bit isn't working. And they're small enough that
just grabbing them with a needle-nose vice grip isn't working either.
Any advice before I do something stupid and screw up what we're some nice
windows before the idiots got involved?
Scott
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