Every move gets new keys.
House, apartment, car, or shop, anywhere in Oceanside. You get a real arrival estimate and the price before we touch the door. What to have ready for a lockout.
Every home in Oceanside changes hands with a trail of keys behind it. The seller's agent, the last tenant, the cleaner, the neighbor who watered the plants. In a city where Camp Pendleton orders and lease turnovers move thousands of households a year, that trail is longer than most.
A rekey fixes it in one visit. We keep your deadbolts and knobs, swap the pins inside, and hand you a fresh set of keys that opens every door. Old keys stop working the moment we leave. It is cheaper than new hardware and it is the first thing we would do in our own place.
Book it for move-in day and we work around the truck. How a move-in rekey works, and what we rekey in one visit.
Summer orders fill our calendar with move-ins in San Luis Rey, Eastside, and the rentals along Mission Avenue and SR-76. If you have a report date, book the rekey now and we hold the slot. If you are leaving, we cut the key count your landlord's move-out inspection asks for.
Active duty, reserve, veterans, and spouses get 10% off labor with ID. We work off base; on-base family housing goes through the housing office, and we say so plainly rather than pretend otherwise. Discount terms, PCS timing, and what we can do near the base.
Long-term and short-term rentals need different lock routines. We run both.
Rekey at every turnover on a schedule, one key per unit and a manager key for you, invoices tagged by address. Restricted keyways stop tenants from copying keys at the hardware store. Garden apartments off Oceanside Boulevard, duplexes in Eastside, townhomes in Jeffries Ranch: same routine, every time.
Beach rentals on The Strand and South Pacific Street run on codes, not keys. We install smart deadbolts that survive salt air, set up owner, cleaner, and guest codes, and come out the same day when a key walks off between check-out and check-in. A wall-mounted lockbox covers dead batteries and lost phones.
Moves and rentals are the specialty, not the limit. The van carries deadbolts, smart locks, strike plates, gate hardware, and the tools for a car door in the Harbor lot.
Most Oceanside locksmith sites make you phone for a number. Ours are published, and the tech quotes the total before starting.
$45
Then $25 per additional lock, two keys included.
$95-$145
Non-destructive entry, trip charge included.
$39
Flat, anywhere inside Oceanside city limits.
Downtown and the Pier District, South Oceanside, Fire Mountain, Eastside, San Luis Rey, Rancho Del Oro, Ivey Ranch, Jeffries Ranch, Ocean Hills, and Morro Hills. ZIPs 92054, 92056, 92057, and 92058, plus the streets just past the city line where a job makes sense for both of us.
Each neighborhood has its own housing and its own lock problems, from corroded beach-cottage hardware to ranch gates out past the groves. The neighborhoods, block by block.
Mike runs Pier Lock Co. and is the one who answers the phone. The company is licensed and insured, and it shows up in a marked van, not an unmarked sedan with a "starting at $19" story.
Price before work. ID check on every lockout. Photo invoice when we are done. Who we are and how the company is licensed.
Same number for all three. If it is a lockout, call. If it is a move, book the date and forget about it.
