Teenage salesgirl ignores no soliciting sign and walks right into a man’s San Francisco Bay Area home, demands to speak to homeowners who don’t live there, and refuses to leave: ‘I should have told her she was trespassing’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jun 6, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

The latest version of the American Dream consists of your own San Francisco Bay Area home, your own anxiety, and the relentless privilege of being harassed by door-to-door solar evangelists who treat personal boundaries as a suggestion rather than law.

This is a story of a guy in his mid-30s, finally parked in his garage, savoring a fleeting moment of peace, when a teenage salesgirl enters the scene, marching into the garage as if she owns the deed, all business, zero self-awareness. She demands to see the homeowners because solar panels wait for no one, and apparently, neither do uninvited sales reps from the Minnesota School of Pushiness.

The pitch is a bureaucratic fever dream. She is not here to sell anything, but also here on vitally important solar-panel-related business, and by the way, could you hand over your parents' contact info even though they have not lived here in years. Her actual company remains as mysterious as her logic. As she repeats her demands, she weaves in a warning that someone else will definitely drop by soon, turning the garage into a set for the next episode of Paranormal Solicitors. 

Each polite refusal is met with stubborn escalation. She's "not selling anything," but she's pre-approved your roof for solar panels and needs your parents' contact info—despite them not living there and you declining harder than the Nasdaq in 2008. As if grinding down your will to live will reveal hidden homeowner secrets.

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  • "I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THE HOMEOWNER!"

    NO SOLICITING "This woman was in my garage, practically blocking me from getting out
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  • For context, I'm a guy in my mid- 30s. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in the house I grew up in. My parents own the house but I live by myself and they rarely come by. They have given me a lot of freedom to make the place my own. Nonetheless, even when
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  • they have told me that it isn't necessary, I always make a point of running any decisions regarding home improvement projects by them, which is why I always tell anyone coming to the house trying to sell something that I am not the homeowner.
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  • I have severe anxiety and hate unexpected visitors. I had a "No Soliciting" sign on my front door, though I had to take it down when when we replaced the door and painted the house about a month ago, and I had yet to get a
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  • new one (though in this situation it wouldn't have mattered for reasons that will soon become apparent). For the most part, people were okay at obeying it, but I occasionally have the entitled who
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  • deliberately ignores it. Most of the time, when I tell them I'm not the homeowner, they're polite, give me their business card to give to the homeowner before leaving.
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  • Last week however, I came home, opened the garage door and parked my car (I always back in, so the front of my car is facing the driveway), and was looking at something on my phone, when a young woman, probably 18 or 19, walks into my garage and comes
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  • up to my car window. It startled me, and she began her interaction with me by apologizing for startling me, and said "Don't worry, I get startled all the time. I totally understand." Okay.
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  • I ask her what she wants, she says that she's not here to sell anything, but nonetheless wants to speak to the homeowners regarding solar panels. I forget exactly what she said, but it was
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  • something along the lines of wanting to get information for a brochure, and our home was "pre-approved" or some shalike that. If you're confused, so was I.
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  • She gives me the usual "Are you the homeowner?" I say no. She asks if they are here, and I say no. She asks when they'll be home. I tell her they don't live here. She asks if I am a tenant, and I make the critical error of telling her that my parents are the homeowners, but they don't live here.
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  • She asks me if I can give her their contact info. I say no, but if she has a business card I can give it to my parents and they'll give her a call if they're interested in whatever service she's offering.
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  • She tells me she isn't offering any service, she just wants to consult with the homeowners ( ?), and again, demands that I give them their contact info. Again, I say no, but I can give them her contact info.
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  • She then launches into a tirade, saying something along the lines of "Dude, I'm not the one who will be installing the panels! I'm not even from around here, I'm from Minnesota!" I don't see how that's relevant, nor did I ever think that she'd be the one installing the panels. I ask her
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  • who she is working for, if she's with a utility company (at one point she asked if she could look at our electric meter, which she could easily do since it's right at the side of the house), and if she isn't there to sell anything, why is she here?
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  • She repeats the same confusing sh; she isn't there to sell anything, but is collecting information for a brochure about solar panels and our house was "pre-approved," and since I'm not the homeowner, could I give her their contact information. I tell
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  • her no, and that even if I gave her their information, they're just going to tell her the same thing that I'm saying, that we aren't interested. I ask if there's any way we can opt out of whatever she's there for. She says no, because there's nothing to opt out of ¯¯¯?).
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  • I try to see if she's wearing anything with her company's logo on it. All I see is a lanyard with the Google logo on it, and if I remember correctly it didn't even have a name tag or anything. She
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  • did tell me the name of the company she supposedly was working for when she first came up to me, but I don't remember what it was, as otherwise I'd look it up.
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  • At this point I'm beginning to feel very uncomfortable. If the genders and ages were reversed, and I were a young woman sitting in my car in my own garage and a 30-something guy came up to my car and demanded my contact info, I'm sure it would be highly frowned upon. I honestly think she was mentally ill. If she were at the front door, I'll I'd have to do is say "Sorry, not interested," and shut the door. But this crazy woman was in my garage, practically blocking me from getting out of my car,
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  • I tell her several times that I'm not going to give her my parents' contact information, but she can give me the name of whoever she works for and I'll pass the information along to my parents. At this point I'm more angry than anxious and I'm fighting the urge to yell at her to get the f out of my garage. But I remained calm.
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  • After much back and forth, I finally got her to leave. However, as she was walking out, she said "Someone else is going to come by your house later!" and the way she said it honestly sounded like a threat. So far nobody else has come by. I since have gotten a new "No Soliciting" sign, which I put on the front door, but I have no idea how to deal with people who come up to me when I'm nowhere near the font door and refuse to leave.
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  • In hindsight, I should have told her she was trespassing and would call the police if she refused to leave, but I was so anxious for most of the altercation that I was at a loss for words.
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