I live on Pecos Ave. between Extension and Alma School. On Saturday, 11/18, at apx. 2p.m. I was talking to my neighbor two doors away in her front yard. The gate to my side yard was open because I went to check my mail and then saw my neighbor in her front yard. I walked over to talk with her about the MM/Mesa P.D. meeting the evening before. A young man driving a teal colored old Saturn stopped slightly west of my property and walked up to my front door. I saw him and immediately walked home. He was shaking my security door handle and was trying to look inside my house. I asked him what he wanted but he was so intent on what he was doing, he didn't hear me so in a louder voice I said ''I'm behind you. What do you want?'' I did not walk up to my door, but stayed where I could be seen from the street. He asked me if Dwight lived here. I said no but that he might live next door. He asked two more times if Dwight lived here. I looked him straight in the eye both times and said no. I did not tell him who lived here. He said he must have copied down the address wrong and got into his car and sped off toward Alma School. He never went next door or to any other house on Pecos that I could see. He was very clean, nice looking Anglo about 20-25 years old, clean shaven, well trimmed dark brown hair, nicely dressed. At the time I didn't think that this could have been an attempted burglary because he was so average looking. By 7p.m. I was still thinking about the incident so following the Marlborough/Mesa P.D. instructions from the meeting the night before, I phoned the 644 non-emergency number. The lady who answered said she could not take the information, but would send an officer to take a report. She said they were very busy and it would be at least 3 hours before the officer could take the report. I told her I would be asleep by then and hung up. It was still on my mind Monday so I went to the Dobson Substation and reported it. The supervisor to whom I spoke was not happy that the information was not taken over the phone. He said he would give the information to the officers and he personally would drive through the neighborhood including the nearby condos to see if the car was there. Without my telling him, he knew the color of the Saturn. I didn't realize that I had a stereotype of a criminal in my mind. The policeman told me that burglars no longer fit any stereotype. He thanked me for reporting the incident and said to report anyone or anything that just does not seem right or out of place in our neighborhood. I learned BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.!