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If your attempts to make contact prove unsuccessful, you may have to explore other methods for conducting your investigation. Repeated visits to a property offer opportunities to notice if there is actually anyone living at the reported location. You may see your written notices stacking up on the door, with no indications anyone has been home since your investigation began. This could mean that the resident uses a side door or garage entrance and has not seen the notices, no one is living at the residence, or the subject is simply coming and going and has chosen not to retrieve or respond to your notices. Other indicators such as the location of vehicles, foot tracks in the snow, or accumulating mail or garbage can all lend clues about whether someone is ignoring your attempts to make contact. Oftentimes persistence pays off – if a subject begins to realize that you will continue to visit them until the matter is resolved, they may eventually decide to answer the door. If not, there are other investigation methods you can employ that may inform your next steps up to and including application for a search warrant. Consider talking with the complainant again, interview neighbors, other witnesses, or follow up on other information you have learned that could prove helpful. In most cases it is not appropriate simply to close a case because you cannot make contact, so be persistent and think outside the box about ways to compel the subject to talk with you or other ways to verify the legitimacy of the report and complete your investigation.