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Lakewood and the Baylands edge: sixties tracts in front, townhome courts behind, salt air on everything outdoors
The flat north-west corner, between Lawrence Expressway and the marsh. Single-story tracts from the sixties, later townhome courts sharing one rolling gate, and the levee trail closing off the top of the map. Nineteen minutes from Moffett Park, and most of this work happens in daylight.
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19 min
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$89
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Two kinds of address share these streets. The older houses arrived as one builder package: a knob set on the front, a deadbolt bored above it, and a side door into the garage that the family actually uses while the front door is kept for visitors. Rekeying is $28 to $45 per cylinder and the list on a lot like this stops at four, taking in the front, the garage side door, the back door and the yard gate. One figure covers all four with the $89 visit inside it once. A house lockout is $125 to $219. The technician begins at whichever opening does the least harm, which on these lots is nearly always that garage side door, and the lock keeps working afterward. If a mechanism refuses every tool, you hear what it is doing before anything else happens, and agreeing to a drill never buys a larger number.
The townhome courts behind them run on different rules. There is a rolling gate at the parking court, sometimes a pedestrian gate on a keypad, a bank of mailboxes in a shared alcove, and a tuck-under garage with a remote clipped to the visor. Your front door and your remote are yours to arrange. The gate, the alcove and the trash enclosure are association property, and the board or its manager orders work on them. Gate and remote work is $149 to $429, which takes in an operator board that no longer answers the call box, a keypad that has stopped accepting codes, and a full reprogram after a sale so the spare clickers the seller kept stop working the day escrow closes.
Fog off the marsh does something particular out here. It settles on the levee side overnight carrying salt, and exterior hardware is where it shows: a gate latch that has not turned since spring, a shed padlock at the back of a lot, a north-facing strike on a garage door. Those get taken apart, cleaned and repinned before anybody discusses buying new ones, and where the cylinder is genuinely finished a lock replacement is $125 to $315 per door. Households tired of handing a key to a dog walker put a smart lock at $189 to $469 on the garage door and leave the front set alone. After a forced door, repair is $175 to $429; the receipt breaks out the frame work, the strike and the cylinder separately, which is the form a claim wants.
Say whether it is a house on a tract street or a unit in a townhome court, because that decides who is allowed to book the work. If a rolling gate stands between the street and the door, say whether it is opening at all. Count the yard gate and any shed before you call so one figure takes in the whole lot.
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FAQ
Asked from Lakewood & the Baylands edge
Does the levee trail closing off these streets affect the nineteen minutes?+
A little, so say which end of the street you are on. The trail seals the top of the map, which means several of these streets come in from one direction only and a technician who guesses wrong loops back around Lawrence Expressway. Give the nearest cross street and the run holds at about nineteen minutes.
The rolling gate at our townhome court is stuck open. Whose call is that?+
The association, or whoever manages it. A parking court gate is common property here, so the board books the repair and that work is $149 to $429. Your own front door and the remote clipped to your visor are yours to arrange without asking anyone. A gate stuck open is not locking you out, so it is rarely a night job.
Does the salt air off the marsh really matter to a lock?+
On exterior hardware it does. Gate latches, shed padlocks and north-facing strikes on this side of the city seize while the key still turns freely, and most of the time that is a cylinder to be cleaned and repinned rather than a dead one. Count the yard gate and any shed when you call so the whole lot goes into one figure.
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Say which opening stopped you, hear the figure, and get through it
Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Alviso, 24/7, holidays included. A gate, a lobby reader, a fob, a unit door, a shop front, a car or a safe: one figure comes back with the $89 visit and the hour already inside it. Your own door and your own fob are yours to arrange; a shared opening takes a word from the manager or the HOA, and that gets sorted while you are still on the phone.