How often do people knock on your door?

[Spinneret]

I would say every 3 Days or so

 

[tvguy]

Rarely. Once every two or three months. We have a sign asking delivery people to ring the bell, but we have a large locking mailbox on the street so most packages fit in the mailbox.
Door to door salespeople dropped way off years before the pandemic, and are mostly gone since. Didn't help that that the Sheriff said that basically he would find any company that does door to door sales in this age to be suspect.

 

[Meriweather]

not often....just one neighbor if he is bringing something over or needs help with something.
Otherwise, maybe once every 4-5 months

 

[nw6675]

Almost never, but Murphy's law, every time we go on vacation someone sets off our cameras trying to sell something or campaigning for office. Never when we are here.

 

[Robbie Cottam]

Ring is the best,
I can see them coming, before the get to the steps.

 

[TippyThomas]

Only the delivery people seem to ring or knock when they drop something off. I'm out in the boonies where uninvited visitors aren't common.

 

[lynxstch]

Only the delivery people seem to ring or knock when they drop something off. I'm out in the boonies where uninvited visitors aren't common.

I'm not in the boonies, but far enough over the city limit line, that it happens very rarely unless it's a delivery person.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Hardly ever. We’re rural and our house sits quite a ways back from the road so nobody stops here. We usually know when friends and family are coming cause they text first and they pretty much just let themselves in.

 

[tvguy]

Ring is the best,
I can see them coming, before the get to the steps.

LOL. My neighbor learned on Halloween to turn off monitoring of his Ring when he isn't home.
He had it paired to his cell phone. His cell phone is paired to his hearing aids. Every time a kid came to his door on Halloween.....while he was 500 miles away......the door bell rang in his hearing aids. Thank goodness we only had about a dozen kids.
Our Police Department started charging $30 a year for a permit for a Ring Camera, considering it a burglar alarm. They stopped doing that about two weeks ago at least temporarily, but it may come back because their stats show 97% of the Police calls prompted by a Ring camera are false alarms.

 

[ronandannette]

Practically never, unless we've invited company. We almost never order food delivery and I have all our packages delivered to my office. We live in a condo complex and our front doors open onto a courtyard that's not exposed to the street. Nobody just wanders up to the doors. If the bell rang when I wasn't expecting it, I'd assume it was one of the neighbours.

 

[DVCjj]

Never
Have No Solicitations sign on storm door.
Plus at far end of culdesac and probably too lazy to walk there.

 

[Tiggerish]

I live in an 11 story senior citizen apartment building. I get groceries, prescriptions and Amazon deliveries. I have a reputation of being good with helping with paperwork and for having a cookie jar with freshly baked cookies on my counter. Consequently, between 1 to 3 times each day someone knocks on my door.

 

[DCLMP]

Maybe a few times a week. It's usually a salesperson or Jehovah's Witness. I don't answer my door.

 

[E&Cmom]

Mostly delivery people who knock, drop and dash or annoying solicitors.

 

[Robbie Cottam]

LOL. My neighbor learned on Halloween to turn off monitoring of his Ring when he isn't home.
He had it paired to his cell phone. His cell phone is paired to his hearing aids. Every time a kid came to his door on Halloween.....while he was 500 miles away......the door bell rang in his hearing aids. Thank goodness we only had about a dozen kids.
Our Police Department started charging $30 a year for a permit for a Ring Camera, considering it a burglar alarm. They stopped doing that about two weeks ago at least temporarily, but it may come back because their stats show 97% of the Police calls prompted by a Ring camera are false alarms.

Yea, not sure they will have much luck collecting on that. They might have forgotten who pays them in the first place

 

[BLTtinkerbell]

Almost never. We live in a quiet area on a cul-de-sac. When we invite people over, we unlock the door & they just walk in.

 

[tvguy]

Yea, not sure they will have much luck collecting on that. They might have forgotten who pays them in the first place

Until a few weeks ago, they had no problem collecting the $30 fee. But the only way they knew about the Ring Cameras was if it was reported as the source that caused a call to Police. If the property didn't have an alarm permit, after a call, they got a bill for an alarm permit. But they suspended that practice after a local TV station started looking into it.
It is apparently not a common practice, but it is allowed under California state law, a law passed by the Representatives the voters have elected.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/call-kurtis-are-ring-cameras-alarm-systems/

 

[CdnCarrie]

People still get salesman to the door?

Random people at the door? Once every few years maybe?
I’m not counting planned food deliveries. I get Amazon packages delivered to the post office not to the door.

Think the last one was passports which came by registered Canada Post and he rang the doorbell. That was before Christmas.

 

[tvguy]

People still get salesman to the door?

Not frequently, but yes. In my case, they are usually are Home Improvement Service salespeople. Probably because I am one of the few on my street who has not upgraded my windows to dual pane.

 

[Robbie Cottam]

Until a few weeks ago, they had no problem collecting the $30 fee. But the only way they knew about the Ring Cameras was if it was reported as the source that caused a call to Police. If the property didn't have an alarm permit, after a call, they got a bill for an alarm permit. But they suspended that practice after a local TV station started looking into it.
It is apparently not a common practice, but it is allowed under California state law, a law passed by the Representatives the voters have elected.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/call-kurtis-are-ring-cameras-alarm-systems/

I see the problem ….
I suspect they suspended the practice because it may pass CA standards of fair play, but not federal…
It is amazing that the true power in this country lies in the media .