Residents display prominent No soliciting signs, yet salespeople continue to ring doorbells, knock, and peer through windows, causing homeowners to feel both rude for yelling and violated in privacy. Homeowners should assess whether intrusions are isolated or persistent, differentiate a single straggler from constant groups, and identify the company whose representatives repeatedly show up. If intrusions are frequent and invasive, complain in an icily civil tone and allow the company’s attorneys to address potential illegalities; consider physical barriers or police only if necessary. At a charity event, a former shelter client spoke 45 minutes and revealed graphic personal and criminal details, making attendees uncomfortable.
Your request for stronger measures after admitting to the practice of yelling, at strangers, loudly enough to be heard through a closed window not unnaturally makes Miss Manners stop to think before she responds. Is this a case of one straggler per week who, though annoying, could be either ignored or turned away at the door with a brusque No, thank you?
Or is there a line of salespeople jostling at the gate, day and night, whose comings and goings are keeping the baby awake? Before we start building fences, investing in locks or calling the police, have you tried identifying the company whose representatives these are? If the repetition and intrusiveness is as seriously invasive as you suggest and you can keep your tone icily civil when you complain you can let the company's attorneys deal with possible illegalities.
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