Just tell any potential visitors not to just walk into your house. Problem solved.

Keith

I used to work two jobs. 19 hour days. When I got divorced I needed new appliances. All were delivered at times I wasn't home with an unlocked door. My doors are open 90% of my life and so are my parents. Burgler would just break a windows anyways. Out here most people have unlocked houses
Don't know if I even have a key anymore for my front door lol. Don't use that one much.
I would have given the driver and helper time to explain themselves to see if their explanation was plausible.
Ive yet to call the cops on anyone in my life.
Im sure you were rattled Finster. Especially seeing someone staring at you through the window.
Im glad everything turned out okay for all of you.

My customers either give me keys or the code to their houses or just leave them open for me all the time. Even new customers.

I have never gotten the wrong house though.

I did enter a customers house once thinking no one was home (there were no cars in the driveway). I walked up the stairs to the second floor and was looking at the ceiling above the stairs where I had to make a repair when the wife stepped out of the bedroom behind me and said, "hey." It scared me so bad I almost fell down the stairs. We both had a good laugh about it. She said she heard me coming up the stairs but thought it was their large (and very friendly) dog until I paused 3/4 of the way up. She said the dog would never do that. LOL

I always announce myself even if I don't think anyone is home but I guess she didn't hear me.

Not paranoid? Dude, you have handguns tucked into your sofa cushions.

I am afraid there would have been a good chance there would be a bad ending for someone if that happened here. I don't ask many questions, particularly with the description of the individual and the circumstances you shared. Too many undesirables around these days.

Its not a sickness if its normal to you is it

Thats crazy but it happens. Itd be less sad but no diff than the mom that was shot dead by her son b/c her and dad snuck into his house at 5am to surprise him for his birthday. Both stories are probably something to learn from.

You guys may want to ease up on watching John Wick and Yellowstone.

Pretty sure stacking bodies for someone with the wrong address lands you in prison.

We don't all live where Cholos commonly roam, you might see them on the daily but here in this part of the country they stand out more than guys that resemble Bigfoot.

TTT , to the top, lol

Thats called being prepared, for anything.

Paranoid is just thinking you need to be prepared for anything all the time

I’d have them at gunpoint for sure. It wasnt like you live in a townhouse where they look alike!

… I’d have got one of them “assistants “ and beat the dogsnot out of em with it

LOCK THE FRIKKEN DOORS!!!!!

He was home, just in the shop. Who locks their house when they're home?

Thanks for sharing your story.
I have always been a dog person. I currently own four German Shepherds as well as a few labs.
Dogs will alert when someone arrives. You could take a nap and not be concerned about anybody showing up and you not knowing about it.

I do not blame you for being wound up with the experience. It is easy for some to criticize how someone handles things.
I worked as a carpenter for a lot of years. I cannot imagine going into a home that I was not certain about. I too worked in a lot of homes when
folks were not home. Sometimes had a key, sometimes they left the house unlocked.
Would never have gone into a house I was not sure I had work to do in. These days those dumb @#RQT \'s were lucky nothing worse happened to them.

Mac

Was the neck tat. a bullseye?

My Mother and Father in law were having some work done in their basement about 30 years ago and it was contract work. He had a large safe in the basement where these guys were working. About 3 days later they were in bed and he kept hearing a pecking sound outside his bedroom window. When he looked out there was a man on his knees at the basement window which was under the bedroom window breaking out the glass in the basement window. He yelled at the man. The guy jumped up and ran down the road and got in to a truck and took off down the road. They didn't know it, but they lived on a dead end road. The crooks turned around and came back flying by the house and when they went by my Father in law unloaded a Smith & Wesson 357 magnum at the back of the truck. He went in to call the cops but they had cut the phone lines. He couldn't say for sure if it was some of the guys that did the work in the basement but thought they had seen the safe and came back to steal what was in it. They were an older couple and no telling what would have happened if they would have gotten in. My Father in law was someone you didn't want to mess with even at his age. They never heard anything from the cops after they came out and investigated it. He said he could hear the rounds hitting the truck as it left