That makes sense once you look at the housing. These are houses people own rather than flats people rent, and a house someone owns tends to have a safe in a closet, a back door and a garage, which is three more locks than an apartment has.
The job this neighborhood actually calls about
Whole house rekeys. You bought the place, escrow closed, and the previous owner's contractor, cleaner, dog walker and brother in law may all still have a key. Nobody is accusing anyone. You simply do not know, and you cannot find out, so you change the pins and stop thinking about it.
Most houses up here run to four separate cylinders: the entrance, the rear, the side gate and the garage. Collapsing all four onto one key takes a morning, and it is reliably the part people mention afterwards.
Hills, old doors and weather
The doors up these streets move with the fog. Wood swells, the house settles on the slope, and the deadbolt that lined up perfectly in September will not throw in February. Nine times out of ten that is a strike plate that needs moving three millimetres, not a lock that needs replacing. We will say so.
Dolores Park and 24th Street
We are a few minutes from both, and the Dolores Park side of the hill is the same van and the same drive. Car lockouts on the park streets in summer are their own small season.
