Lauderdale Lakes sits in central Broward and built out largely through the 1960s and 1970s. The housing is a mix of single-family homes, villas, and a substantial number of condominium communities, including large age-restricted sections. It is a city where a high proportion of front doors are still carrying hardware installed when the house was new.
The 1960s and 1970s housing
Lauderdale Lakes single-family neighborhoods are concrete block homes on modest lots, built during the county post-war expansion. Villa and condominium sections went up in the same period and shortly after.
Locks you will find: Cylindrical knob locks from Schlage and Kwikset. Deadbolts were not standard on the earliest of these homes and were often added later. Hardware that is fifty or sixty years old is well past its design service life — not necessarily broken, but worn to the point where the key needs coaxing and the mechanism can fail without much warning.
A worn cylinder can usually be restored by rekeying, which replaces the pins and springs. If there is visible play in the plug when the key is inserted, the lock body itself is worn and replacement is the more honest recommendation.
Condominium and villa communities
Lauderdale Lakes has a large share of attached villas and low-rise condominium buildings, several of them age-restricted.
Locks you will find: Unit entry locks and deadbolts, cluster mailboxes in shared mailrooms, association-controlled common doors and amenity buildings.
Two recurring items in this kind of community. Cluster mailbox cylinders are small, used daily, and jam — a mailbox that will not lock is an identity exposure, not just an annoyance. And unit doors that have been rekeyed repeatedly across ownership changes accumulate wear in the cylinder each time.
Rentals and turnover
Lauderdale Lakes has a significant rental share. For an owner, the practice that matters is rekeying between tenants. Keys leave a property in ways nobody records — given to a relative, copied for a roommate, kept by a contractor. Rekeying at turnover is the only way to actually reset who can open the door, and a documented rekey also protects the owner if an incident is ever disputed.
What we do
- House rekey — every exterior opening, not just the front door.
- Lock change — when hardware is worn, corroded, or damaged.
- Deadbolt installation and strike reinforcement.
- Home lockout — non-destructive entry, identification showing the address required.
- Sliding and patio door locks.
- Mailbox locks — cluster box cylinder replacement.
Call Broward County Locksmith
Broward County Locksmith serves Lauderdale Lakes and the surrounding Broward communities. Licensed and insured. Flat-rate pricing quoted before we dispatch.
Call (954) 888-8800.
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