Chilly, damp, and raw today. Clothing appropriate. Seemed heavy footed however, like work boots.

Damned weird. I would consider pushing a piece of furniture in front of the door at night. And checking the windows for security upgrades.

Most residential burglaries happen during the day, when people are at work and school. Often the knock at the door is to verify the house is empty and if it is, then the door is pried open or they move to a different door in the back of the house to gain entry. This looks like a burglary attempt to me. Burglar/getaway driver team. My guess is there were other nearby homes that were broken into. The clothing would have concealed a pry tool or the heavy boots could be used to kick in a door.
I think you skated on a burglary.

Same thing has happened to me in Texas. But a different flavor. Two times this past winter, it was two people. First time it was a 50+ white male, cowboy hat, with a black female aged 30-40. Same thing, parked right in front of my house and didn’t hit other houses on the street. Next time it was two white males, aged 40-50. They cased my house. Looked it up and down, trespassed on my property and my neighbors as they walked around my house, and cased it from the alley in the back too. Got plenty of cameras, real nice surveillance system, in conjunction with the ring doorbell and floodlight out back. I put the rings in so I would have a mic/speaker so I can talk to them from anywhere. Both of these times I was driving and I don’t play with the phone in my vehicles. Like you I also talked to the PD. If it’s the mow/window salesman/chimney work/spray paint your house number on the curb idiots, IDGAF. I have a no soliciting sign on my security storm door but if they hit the street, is what it is. When you target my home and park in front of my house we have a problem.

I’ve talked to the PD, know a few of them from K9 training. But my K9 is retired now, old. So I haven’t trained with the PD’s around here or the Schutzhund field in a couple of years. I didn’t know the kid who got assigned my last case with the two white males. I did name drop the guys I know when talking to this guy. I asked him if it’s going to be a problem if I answer the door armed, open carrying. He basically said I could have a slung AR on and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Thought about it, some woke girl claiming I pointed at her or someone with half a clue saying “I got swept”. But I have a fixed camera on the front door + the ring so it would all be on video and VOD for any officer to view. Like a dash cam in a vehicle, any bs is over instantly. Since, I took out my Scorpion, brace, sling, blah, and when I’m home it lives it life leaned up next to the front door. I can’t be bothered with a gun belt, holster, etc, when I’m working at home or relaxing. I keep my property up, lawn, everything, so you have no reason to be doing this. I live in a nice neighborhood but my home is far from the nicest in this area. But it is well kept and worth some serious money. Marked car with business signage, a marked shirt with company logo, solicitors, no issue. But this new thing with no marked vehicle, clothing, no flyer, no business card, etc, I’m done with it. If home, I’m answering the door armed. And the next time I will pull off the road and bring up the app with video, audio, and get on the mic. I’m paying way too much taxes and homeowners and this is my property. This bullshit is over.

 
Our front door is inside a fenced yard, so I installed this wireless remote doorbell at the fence gate.
 

A future porch pirate doing some recon?

Another member of the neighborhood watch saw that car parked around the block sitting at the same time bit didn’t know to get license plate. I know how it seems to me…mfer!

I don’t answer the front door. Neither does my wife. We will open the garage and come out behind whoever is at the door. Me carrying my P2000 or the wife carrying her P239. Those guns are always within arms reach.

I just reread the posts and didn’t notice. Is your ring doorbell wireless or wired?

Boat, my house it situated the sam way so I can and plan to do that as well. The camera/doorbell is hard wired.

We had a hardwired Ring doorbell that started doing the same thing last year- went offline every once in awhile either right as we answered it or a few seconds after. In our case it was with people we knew or a recognized delivery driver so we thought it was just the Ring. Finally tracked down the issue after several months; doorbell transformer (from 1990) wasn’t supplying uniform power and when we answered it would overload and the ring would lose power. It was weird because the doorbell had worked fine for years, only figured it out after Ring sent us a new doorbell and it did the same thing.

Whisp, good point, and glad you worked it out. My house is only 8 yrs. Old, but that’s worth consideration. Thank you.

Looking for a house to rob.

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Originally posted by apf383:Seemed heavy footed however, like work boots.

That will be the day........