Reply #10: I can count the number of times someone has come to the door in 10+ years... [View All]

...probably on one hand. It's a very small town in a remote, rural area of California's north coast. The vast majority of "solicitors" have been fundraisers from the volunteer fire dept and kids from the elementary school selling raffle tickets or some such. Very occasionally a religious mission, and only once that I can recall, someone actually selling something-- magazine subscriptions (and yes, they burned me-- I knew it would happen, too, but I did it anyway).

on edit-- once or twice a year someone often responds to the obvious need and stops by to offer yard care service, LOL-- which I almost always accept and happily pay for, but it's always a one-off event. One guy came back a couple of times, but not regularly. I really dislike lawn care and the more tangled the jungle, the more the cats like it, too....