Compared to the horror stories of agents being attacked during a home showing, this story is pretty benign. However, it does remind us that being on guard for strange behavior can increase your safety.
An Albany, Georgia man went through the local real estate book and started calling the agents he found attractive. When doing the house tours he made subtle sexual advances to the agents, he was not interested in the homes but meeting the agents.
Some of you out there probably are rolling your eyes as having buyers flirt with you is part of the game. But the reality is that you need to make sure that people know where you are and who you are with at all times.
The suspect plead guilty to 4 counts of disorderly conduct and was instructed by the judge not to have contact with real estate agents in the future.
Investigators say 43 year old David Edge used a tough real estate market to his advantage. Using a real estate book to target attractive female real estate agents, he told them he was only interested in homes $350,000 and above, but those agents would soon learn Edge had other motives.
“From what we gathered he wasn’t actually looking for a house, not from what we could find,” said Captain Miles O’Quinn, Lee County Sheriff’s office. During the home tours agents told investigators instead of being interested in the homes, he was more interested in them.
“The real estate agent would meet him, during the course of showing the house the offender would make sexual innuendos, inappropriate comments and such like that,” said O’Quinn. Investigators say David Edge went as far as using the sprayer to spray several of the agents and then offering to dry them off. via WALB.com
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Wow. Just when I’d thought I’d read everything!
How embarrassing.