Anybody had luck keeping toads to stick around in their yard?

They are probably still really close. They can burrow and stay hidden very well and come out at night

We had a big potted plant, the pot had short legs about 2" tall and when I pulled emptied the pot to replant, I found a huge toad that was using the water hole at the bottom of the pot for an entrance and had tunneled a home in the pot.

You could put a bat house in a tree. They're really efficient at eating insects

They like moist spots. If you have a shady spot that gets moisture (like where your condensate line for your outside A/C unit empties) put a piece of cardboard or a broken clay pot down. They will crawl under it and make a home.

i have 3 that i know of in my yard. One lives in the cox cable box in my front yard and comes out of the little hole you stick your fingers in to open the box. Once lives in my gutter extension that runs under the mulch in my flowerbed, and one lives behind a 4x4 fence post that buts up against my house. I just found the one that lives between the 4x4 and the fence a few weeks ago when i was weedeating. I hit him and kinda slung him. Luckily it wasnt too bad. I picked him up, said "sorry buddy" and tucked him back in. i checked on him a few nights later and he was still under there, eyes wide open about to head out for a night of partyin and bug eating.