Guides
Plain answers for this town, read in a few minutes.
Locked out before a shift, what the hour actually costs, one key for the house, the shed and the gate, spares that are worth keeping, and what to change the week you move in — written for this valley floor and nowhere else.
Nov 2025 · 5 min read
Just Bought a House in Gilroy: What to Change in Week One
Three things, in order, and what each costs. Two of them are cheap, one of them is free, and none of them is the alarm somebody will try to sell you.
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Oct 2025 · 6 min read
Keys for a Crew: Who Holds What, and What Happens in November
Seasonal turnover makes metal keys expensive. When a rekey is enough, when a master system pays, and when a reader is the honest answer.
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Sep 2025 · 5 min read
The Spare Key Problem, and Where a Spare Should Actually Live
Most spares fail for the same three reasons. What makes one useful at five in the morning, and what to do if you have none at all.
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Jul 2025 · 5 min read
One Key for the House, the Shed and the Gate
Why rekeying beats replacing, how much it costs per cylinder, and why it matters more on a property with a gate than on one without.
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Jun 2025 · 5 min read
What the Hour Actually Costs, and Why Early Is Not Night
Four tiers, four figures, and the reasoning behind them. Why the same job is one price at half past five and another at half past one.
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Apr 2025 · 6 min read
Locked Out at Five in the Morning With a Shift at Six
What to do in the ten minutes after the door shuts behind you before dawn, what it costs, and why the early call is not priced as an emergency here.
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Say the hour and what stopped you, hear the figure, get to work on time
Gilroy plus San Martin, Hollister, Aromas, San Juan Bautista and Watsonville, around the clock, every day. Four to seven in the morning costs what an evening costs and less than a night, and whatever hour it is, the number comes back on the call with the $89 visit already inside it — and it is the number on the receipt.