Office, industrial, and retail building owners report increasing issues with homeless folks

Office, industrial and retail building owners report increasing issues with homeless folks hanging out during working hours as well as after hours in dimly lit parking areas and nocks sheltered from the elements.

Here are a few solution ideas:

1. Contact your local homeless services organizations to see if they can stop by and meet with your “guests”.
2. If these folks generate garbage, provide a garbage can.
3. Install a powerful light-sensor floodlight, as they prefer dim lit areas.
4. Install either a real or a dummy video camera and large signage announcing, “This Area is Under 24 Hour Video Surveillance” which should by itself reduce unwanted guests.
5. Install with an after-hours timer scratching noise machines. Humans hate the sound it makes, so be sure to have these go on only after your tenants are gone.

Please email me if you have other successful suggestions!