Black Hills Property Preservation

About Black Hills Property Preservation

Summerset is young as South Dakota towns go, its street grid built out mostly within the last two decades, and Black Hills Property Preservation spends a fair amount of its time on the properties that haven't quite caught up to that growth yet — vacant lots waiting on a buyer, rental houses between tenants, places nobody's living in full-time but that still need a driveway cleared so a realtor or a property manager can get in. From a lot of these addresses you can see Bear Butte rising alone out on the plain to the northeast, a fixed landmark against the sky no matter how many new roofs go up between here and there. Elk Creek runs along the edge of town and tends to hold a cold, still fog on the coldest mornings, the kind that settles into a subdivision before the plow trucks are even out. Because Summerset is really a bedroom community for Rapid City, a lot of these driveways need to be clear before six, well before most of the town's residents leave for the day. The company treats an empty house the same as an occupied one — cleared, salted, and checked — because an unwatched property in a Black Hills winter can go wrong quietly if nobody's looking.