
Rekey or replace: what to do with commercial locks after a tenant leaves
Rekeying invalidates every key in circulation for a fraction of the cost of new hardware. When that is enough after a departure, and when it is not.
Miami-Dade · Commercial property
Locks, doors, glass, carpentry and painting are handled by our own W-2 employees. Electrical, plumbing, HVAC and refrigeration require a Florida licence, so licensed contractors carry those out and we manage the job.
Who we are
We handle commercial facility maintenance for property managers, facility directors and multi-site operators across Miami-Dade. When something breaks you call one number, and we take the job from there: the dispatch, the trade, the parts and the paperwork.
Locks and access control, doors and hardware, glass repair, carpentry, painting and general maintenance are carried out by our own technicians. They are W-2 employees, on our payroll, background-checked before they set foot on your property, and covered by our general liability and workers' compensation insurance. None of that work requires a Florida contractor licence.
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC and refrigeration require a Florida state licence at any size of job, and a permit pulls any trade into the same category. Our own technicians do not carry out that work. Licensed contractors do, each holding the licence their trade requires and carrying their own insurance. We stay responsible for scoping the job, booking the visit, getting them access and filing the record.
Scheduling and follow-up take up more of a property manager's week than the repairs themselves. We photograph and write up every job, so the record is already there when an owner, an insurer or a vendor compliance review asks for it.
What we cover
We work on restaurants, retail units, condo associations, hotels, offices, clinics, warehouses, dealerships, schools and more. Each one calls about different things, and what it costs them to lose differs just as much. See how the work changes by property type.
Facility problems rarely arrive neatly sorted by trade. A leak turns into drywall work. A power fault turns into a refrigeration problem. Some of this our own technicians do. The rest needs a state licence, and we bring in a contractor who holds one. Either way you raise one work order and deal with one company.
Performed in-house
W-2 employees on our payroll, background-checked and covered by our general liability and workers' compensation insurance. None of these trades requires a Florida contractor licence, which is why we can quote them, schedule them and carry them out without a third party in the middle.

Rekeying, master key systems, keypad locks, card readers and panic hardware. Core in-house work, and the trade an employed technician fits best.

Closers, hinges, panic bars, thresholds and alignment. A commercial entrance door fails gradually, and the closer is almost always the part that has gone.

Drywall patching, trim, shelving, cabinet hardware and tile. Most of it is making good after somebody else has opened something up.

Interior and exterior painting, pressure washing, caulking and sealing. In this climate the sealing matters more than the colour.

Storefront glass, door closers and hardware, and same-day board-ups. Broken glass is a security exposure and a liability question before it is a repair.

Drywall, paint, ceiling tiles, caulking and pressure washing. This is the routine work that quietly decides how a property presents to tenants and customers.

The punch list. Doors that stick, locks that fail, fixtures that need mounting, shelving, signage and the dozen small items that never justify their own contractor.

Interior and exterior lighting, LED retrofits, parking lot poles, and the exit and emergency fixtures that inspectors actually check.
Coordinated, licensed, supervised
Florida requires a state contractor licence for these four, at any job size. We check the licence and the certificate of insurance before anyone sets foot on your property, scope the fault so the contractor arrives with the right part, and stay the single point of accountability until it is closed out. Our licensing and insurance page sets out exactly who carries what. You get a specialist who does this every day, managed the way we manage our own work.

Licensed contractor
Rooftop packaged units, split systems, air handlers and controls. Cooling runs hard here for most of the year, and we treat it as operating equipment rather than a comfort system.

Licensed contractor
Panel work, circuit troubleshooting, outlets and switches, dedicated equipment circuits and exterior lighting power, all carried out to Florida commercial code.

Licensed contractor
Fixtures, drain lines, water heaters and leak detection for retail, restaurant and office properties. Water damage compounds by the hour, so plumbing calls get priority dispatch.

Licensed contractor
Walk-in coolers and freezers, reach-in units, ice machines and prep tables. A refrigeration failure is an inventory loss with a clock on it.
The difference
Keeping one building running should not take six vendor relationships, and you should not have to take a contractor's word for what happened while you were elsewhere.
How it works
One number, one form. Tell us the property, the problem and how urgent it is. Emergencies are dispatched around the clock.
Work in our in-house trades goes straight to our own technician, so there is no third party to schedule around. Where the job needs a licensed contractor we arrange that, and either way you get a real window rather than a vague "sometime tomorrow".
The technician arrives background-checked and briefed. If the scope changes on site, you hear about it before the work carries on.
Before-and-after photographs, what was replaced, what it cost and what we recommend next, filed the same day the work is completed.
Where we work
We are a Miami company covering Miami-Dade County and nowhere else. Knowing the buildings and the traffic between Doral and the Beach is what lets us give you a window we can hold to.
Insights
Practical guidance for anyone responsible for commercial property in South Florida.

Rekeying invalidates every key in circulation for a fraction of the cost of new hardware. When that is enough after a departure, and when it is not.

Slamming, sticking and a door that will not latch each point at something different. What they mean, and when adjustment stops being the answer.

Realistic repaint intervals by substrate and exposure, and the signs that say the coating stopped protecting the wall a while ago.
Our technicians handle the trades that need no state licence, and licensed contractors handle the ones that do. Either way we scope it, book the visit and file the record. Tell us the property and the problem and we will come back with a window.