WHY DID WE KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR?
When we service an area, it's common for a Valor Pest Control® rep to come knocking on your door. We just want to know if you'd like to get your home and yard treated at the same time as the neighbors. Because we're already in the area, that rep can typically provide the largest discount on the service than any other promotion we offer.
This is one of the few ways that a smaller local company like ourselves can stay competitive with the large corporations hocking low quality services through multi-million dollar ad campaigns.
WHAT IF MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS A 'NO SOLICITING' NEIGHBORHOOD?
Although your neighborhood or HOA may have posted a 'No Soliciting' sign, only private gated communities where the streets are privately owned and not public, can impose a solicitation restriction.
Any neighborhood or HOA with public streets passing through them cannot impose any restrictions to solicitors because they do not own those streets. Any attempt at doing so would be unconstitutional.
As a homeowner if you wish to restrict door to door solicitations at your home, you have the constitutional right to do so by posting a No Soliciting sign on or near your front door.
Valor Pest Control® employees always respect the wishes of individual homeowners and abide by those signs. We believe in the constitution and will uphold all of our constitutional rights.
This is not just Knox County, but applies anywhere.
"According to the Knox County Law Director’s office, a “no solicitation” sign must appear on the individual property in order for that property to be restricted to solicitors.
A neighborhood with public streets cannot enforce a ban on solicitation because they do not own the streets passing through their subdivision/neighborhood.
Only a private gated community could impose a no solicitation ban for the private neighborhood/subdivision where these homeowners or an association of homeowners actually own the streets passing through their neighborhood/subdivision."
- KNOX COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE
CONTACT COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE
For any further questions or clarifications on soliciting laws, you can contact your county clerk's office.
