Of all the times to do a mass water meter replacement to eliminate headcount...they chose the time frame where kids are out of school and when people go on vacation. Also hired a contractor firm to do the work that hung reminders just before the week of July 4th holiday so anyone driving through your neighborhood could easily see no one was home to remove the reminder from the front door. So do all the things like stopping mail or stopping newspapers and let this contractor flag your home as unoccupied with a reminder on a front door. read more