Life Pro Tip
 

To avoid talking to door salespeople, say you are renting your home. It shuts down the conversation really quick for Solar, pest control, landscaping, and other home improvement sales.:a20:

LOL. I don't need to tell a lie to shut down the conversation.

Shouldn't have to, solicitors are not allowed.

I think they are allowed, call the community watch next time you get a solicitor & see what they tell you. I think I've heard that if you ask them to leave your property & they don't - you can call the sheriff. But most likely once you tell them to leave they just go to the next houses down the street.

Some of the entrance gates have a "No Soliciting" sign, but The Villages does not enforce the rule.

What’s wrong with just saying NO!

We are fortunate we almost never get any door to door salespeople, when we do a polite no thank you and close the door

They cannot enforce the "Rule" because the streets do not belong to the Villages. These are public streets. We do not live in a "gated" community. Imagine though if we did own these streets, our monthly dues would go up for the maintenance.
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The courtyard villa streets are private, but they won't enforce the rule there either.

Beats them selling cremation after you sign for a 30 year mortgage.
Any of these sort of services, you have to be nuts to hire some dude knocking on your door for any project.

I've done this for years. Works 99% of the time. The other 1% the solicitor would give me information to pass on to my "landlord," which promptly went in the shredder.

Professional salespeople are trained to address objections. Overcoming "no" is lesson #1 in addressing an objection. They'll be there for an hour if that's the best you can come up with.

If you say "no" and shut the door - they can yell through the screen (because you didn't actually tell them to leave your property, and therefore they can stay there).

If you say "not interested" they can ask why, and force you to continue the conversation - which gets them one more step to a sale.

Telling them you rent is a good option because they can't get a contract signature or payment from a homeowner if you're not the homeowner. However - if they're pushy enough, they can ask you to contact the homeowner or give out that information. If you say no, they can keep nagging you by insisting that your rental home will be improved, and they'll go through the sales schtik anyway to convince you to give out the information that will result in a sale.

Saying "not interested, please leave" is pretty much the only "correct" answer here. If they continue, "not interested, leave my property now." If they continue, "leave now." If they continue, "leave now or I'm calling the police." If they continue, call the police.

An hour? Not a chance. It will be less than 3 minutes.

Mostly I use... please give me your card .. THen .. I will give this information to TV.
Leave my property and do not return.

What CabbagePatch did you come from. No always has worked for me if they choose to wait for an hour for another try they surely aren’t professional sales people