The Day of the Snowbird in the Life of a Locksmith

As temperatures steadily fall here in the valley, snowbirds migration has began. For all of you that are not accustomed to the hundreds of thousands of middle aged to retired people who have winter houses in the greater Phoenix Metro. The most common problem that these type of people have is that they most likely have not set foot in Arizona since April and when they come back not everything is the way it was left. So as a locksmith I have become accustomed to doing extensive repairs to locks and doors that have been in such a way for months. As houses that do not receive any visitors soon become targets of criminals for vandalism and burglary. As we grow closer to winter these situations have been becoming all the more prevalent.