Unwanted visitors to my property
I own a 4-plex near Jewel Lake in Anchorage. Since the weather has warmed up, I have homeless people coming onto the property, knocking on my door, or hiding in our backyard nearly every day. I talked with several of them:
- One guy was curious how much rent costs and could he dig expired canned food out of our dumpster
- One girl keeps coming back looking for a previous tenant who was arrested + evicted right before I closed on this place - I got startled when she was looking in my window at 6:30 am this morning!
Other than security cameras, any recommendations on how to handle this? Since they typically leave pretty quickly once confronted, I haven't called the police... But I am becoming a bit uncomfortable with this situation.
This is a tough one, but I can think of a few suggestions.
1. Build a fence.
2. Post some very strongly worded signs about trespassing.
3. Lock the dumpster (I know this is a headache for the tenants)
4. Keep up what you are doing and eventually people will get the hint. It sounds like these are isolated incidents and hopefully, they will stop coming around when you tell them off. Remember if you feed the dog, they will keep coming back.
