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Bay Meadows locksmith visits, where the racetrack became towers and townhomes with a garage underneath and a fob for every door
The former racetrack between Delaware St and the rail line, built out in the last decade: apartment towers with a lobby, a package room and a garage below, rows of townhomes with roof decks, a park in the middle, an office campus at the north end and an HOA for nearly all of it.
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17 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Everything here was built at once, so the hardware is uniform and the calls repeat. A tower unit has a lever and a deadbolt, sometimes on an interchangeable core the building can swap itself; a townhome has a front door, a self-latching door from the garage into the house, and a door onto the roof deck that closes behind people carrying a tray. The deck door is the classic lockout, $112 to $195, opened without damage in nearly every case. Rekeys are $24 to $40 per cylinder, and where the building runs interchangeable cores the technician says so on the call, because a spare core from the manager is cheaper than a visit.
The fob is the building's and the cylinders are yours. One credential opens the lobby, the garage gate, the elevator, the bike room and the package room, and it is issued and canceled by the manager, not by a locksmith. What a locksmith handles is the mechanical side of the same ring: the unit door, the mailbox cam, the padlock on the storage cage, and the override cylinder on any keypad lock a landlord fitted. A smart lock on a tower door is $172 to $445 and most HOAs here want the outside to match the corridor, so the finish and the model go on a note to the manager first. A written line for the HOA or the manager is provided on request.
The garages under the buildings are where the cars live, and a car lockout at $97 to $179 begins with the resident meeting the technician at the pedestrian door, since the van cannot pass the gate. Cell reception two levels down is poor; a text from the ramp with the building, the level and the stall arrives when a call does not. The office campus on Delaware St brings suite lockouts at $127 to $235 and exit devices at $285 to $749 per device. Arrival is about seventeen minutes by Delaware St, and the park's weekend events on the lawn do not change it much.
Say whether the address is a tower unit or a townhome, which door is the trouble, and whether the technician can reach it from the street or must be let through the lobby or the garage pedestrian door. Give the building name. The street numbers here run in unexpected directions.
Nearby
A few blocks over, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Bay Meadows
The roof-deck door shut behind me while I was carrying a tray. Can it be opened without damage?+
Almost always. These doors are recent, the cylinders are healthy, and picking or bypassing takes minutes rather than force. A lockout is $112 to $195, evening hours inside the figure. Say which side of the building the deck faces so the technician does not circle the block, and whether the stair up from the unit is the only way back in.
Our garage is two levels down and my phone has no signal there. How will the technician find the car?+
Send the building name, the level and the stall number by text from the ramp before you go down, and wait by the pedestrian door rather than at the car. The van cannot pass the gate, so a resident has to walk the technician in. A car lockout is $97 to $179 whichever level the car sits on.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
One call, one figure on the work order, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Mateo and the towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor and the parts are inside the number written down on the call, and the receipt matches it line for line.