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Bayfair and Halcyon-Foothill, where the parking lots run late and the apartment blocks run on call boxes
Bayfair Center and its lots, the Bay Fair BART station and garage, and the apartment blocks along Halcyon Drive and Foothill Boulevard. Courtyards on a code, carports at the rear, unit numbering that ignores the street. Twenty-six minutes, and longer when the freeway is heavy.
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26 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Parking is the biggest single source of work in this district and it peaks after six. A shift finishes at the center, somebody walks out to a car with the fob face down on the passenger seat, and that is a car lockout at $99 to $189 with the lot and the row named on the call so the van pulls up beside the right vehicle. Commuter parking is its own case: a car left at the BART garage since seven in the morning with a fob whose battery finally quit during the day, which is a cell and a few dollars rather than a job. Where the fob is genuinely gone, programming a replacement at the car is $89 to $185, and that floor cannot go under the $89 visit. A car with no key of any kind left is $145 to $389, cut and coded in the lot. An ignition that turns partway and stalls is $175 to $425.
Across Foothill the buildings take over. Most of these blocks now run a call box that dials a cell phone instead of a buzzer wired to an apartment, which is convenient until the phone with the courtyard code on it is the phone locked inside the unit. A lockout on one of these buildings is $119 to $205 and the courtyard gate is inside that figure rather than counted as a second door. The cylinder is opened without harm, because it belongs to the owner of the building and returning it in one piece is the difference between a bad hour and a bill somebody has to argue about. Proof of address is asked for at the door and the standard is identical for the person who signed a lease and the person who signed a mortgage.
For owners and managers along Halcyon the calendar is turnovers, and turnover season here is loud. A rekey is $26 to $42 per cylinder; three units changing hands in one building go into one visit with the $89 service call counted only once across all of them. The openings that fall off the list are the ones nobody personally owns: the courtyard gate, the laundry room, the mail alcove and the trash enclosure. Those are added to the tally while the figure is being set, so nothing gets discovered later. A common door that has stopped catching is usually mechanical and usually adjustable; where it is an electric strike that hums without releasing, that is a wiring problem and it gets called a wiring problem instead of being billed as a lock. Calls are answered 24/7, $45 inside the figure after 8pm, $80 after midnight.
In a lot or the BART garage, give the lot, the level and the row, plus the make and color of the car. In an apartment, give the unit number and which courtyard or stairwell it opens off, and say whether the trouble is the gate, a common door or your own.
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Does it really matter which lot the car is in?+
More than the street address does. Bayfair Center, the BART garage and the side lots off Halcyon are three different places on a Saturday afternoon. Give the lot, the level and the row, plus the make and color, and the van pulls in beside the right vehicle instead of reading plates down an aisle.
The courtyard gate rings my phone, and my phone is locked inside the unit.+
That is the ordinary case on these blocks and it is planned for. The gate is opened as part of the same visit rather than counted as a second door, then your own door after it. Bring photo ID showing the address, or a lease page or a bill pulled up on somebody else's phone.
The fob worked this morning and does nothing after a day in the BART garage.+
Usually a coin cell that finally quit while the car sat in the cold, which is a few dollars and a minute at the curb rather than a job. If the fob itself has gone, a replacement is paired at the vehicle where it stands. Either way nothing is towed and the car does not move.
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Houses in the morning, shop floors after, and the figure said before either one starts
San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Oakland, the airport and Doolittle strip, and Alameda across the channel, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one figure with the $89 visit inside it and the unit it is counted in, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said, whether the deed is in your name or the lease is.