Alameda Real Estate Agents Raped, Then Sets Up Rapist For Arrest
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We have talked a great deal on this site about real estate agent safety. Either from the elements or providing the tools to be safe when showing homes. One real estate agent in Alameda County, California took another extreme when showing homes. She was attacked by a potential buyer, who police found out had just gotten out of prison. Instead of fighting the man, she befriended him thinking of exacting vigilante justice, but instead led him to the police.
It is a fine line between being paranoid and being safe as a real estate agent. You do not want to get into the mindset that your clients could be attackers and treat them warily, but at the same time trying to find the right balance could save your life. Systematizing your contacts with clients and putting safety precautions in place that are regularly followed can lead to your experience as a real estate agent being safer.
The woman, who works as a real estate agent, was showing a home in Alameda County on Aug. 16 when the prospective buyer attacked her, Nelson said. He declined to say where the incident happened, because that could identify the victim.
The assailant choked the woman, raped and robbed her, Nelson said. During the attack, the woman started to befriend him “in an attempt to gain his trust,” Nelson said.
The woman told him she wasn’t going to call the police and would try to help him, Nelson said. She even went as far as to promise to arrange a job interview for a security or bodyguard position the following day. The woman later told investigators that she had set up the interview so “she could exact vigilante justice on him,” Nelson said. “The victim was afraid the suspect would not be sent to prison for the crime.”
She ultimately decided to call the sheriff at the urging of a relative who had worked as a police officer, Nelson said. When Moore showed up for the supposed job interview at a Starbucks in Hayward, he was met by sheriff’s deputies, Nelson said. via the SFGate.com
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The part about the inventory is right on but in my area they are mostly low end and beat up ...
I worked for this man, he is a great con man and has done this in more than States then ...
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Ouch! Thankfully I haven't come across anything like that yet. We normally don't have situations like that in ...
well, the guy was here illegally.
serves him right. 
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Comment by Charity on 29 August 2007:
well that’s what we call versatility.. For the rest who work in the field just take extra care and take this as an example for precautions. God BLess to all Ü
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[...] about all kinds of scary things that happen to us, REALTORS®. A short while ago in Alameda County, an agent was raped while showing a home. Over the years, I have heard of several horror stories. In fact, between 1982 and 2000, more than [...]
Comment by Rosalie on 13 February 2008:
What the story about the agent raped and robbed in Alameda County didn’t say is that the perpetrator in this crime had been told by a fellow inmate that real estate agents were easy pickins’. They have a car, money and are usually alone in a house.
The Agent 911 sounds like a good product but every real estate agent, in my opinion, should be carrying at least a pepper spray pen or a stun gun cell phone. It still takes time for the police to arrive and you need to be able to protect yourself/or escape from the predator. I have over 30 years experience as a police detective and I know of what I speak. All of my real estate agent friends carry a personal protection product. Be safe, not sorry.