Real Estate Agent ROBBED At Gunpoint Showing Houses? #88

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Great time to be attacked by a rando

Thoughts:

1. I’ve said it before…I think being a real estate agent is a lot more dangerous than people realize. We are constantly in new surroundings at all hours of the day and night.
2. Does this in any way impact the sale price of the home, or the sellers disclosure? Should the sellers have to report on the disclosure that there was an armed robbery at the front door of the townhouse? I’m not a lawyer, but I just feel like it matters. They even caught the fellow, but still, it’s an issue.
3. This feeds into a larger discussion of crime reports for a particular area. It matters, but it’s a slippery slope. For example, we have a Walmart in Shrewsbury. When you look at a map, everything is green except for the Walmart. Why? It’s because they tend to prosecute theft. The rest of our area is pretty safe, but it’s subjective.
4. In my job as a real estate agent, I am not supposed to tell people that a home we may look at may be in a terrible part of town. So I don’t. But, when you go through a block where the windows are gone, there are people hanging out on the streets and then you see this perfectly remodeled home for $20,000 or more less than what another house would go for just 4 or 5 streets away, you would hope that your buyer could figure it out. When I do get a question of crime, I do refer buyers to online resources….I just have to operate within this box as an agent.

Sources:

https://www.wkrn.com/news/he-said-ill-shoot-you-nashville-realtor-describes-moments-man-held-him-at-gunpoint-stole-car/

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