Cold Call - Door Knocking: Safety Tips for Real Estate Agents

In this week's episode of Safe Realty, I talk about old school cold call and door knocking in real estate. 

As real estate agents, we employ a variety of marketing tools to grow our business. Most of us use online resources such as social media or Youtube videos to reach new clients.

Today we will talk about how to safety approach door knocking:

• who knows where you are going

• have a reason to be speaking with the owners, outside of selling them something

• how to deal with upset homeowners or tenants

Even the best plans can have pitfalls, so let's be prepared for the unexpected. 

Grow your business how you feel best suits your personality, goals, and strengths. 

Open House Safety - Part 2: Crimes of Distraction

In this week's episode of Safe Realty, I go further into open house safety as it pertains to the world of real estate. 

Remember the movie Home Alone, when the bad guys are casing a beautiful house just before a family goes away at the holidays, only to break into the home and steal all high end goods? 
This is what bad guys do at realtors® open houses, and not just here on Vancouver Island. 

We will talk about:

•  how casing and distraction crime occurs at a real estate agent's open house

•  how to prevent distraction crime 

•  how to recognize casing

•  how best to prepare your sellers in order to protect their homes for sale.

Listen while you prepare your open house or while showing opens. Share this episode with another real estate agent who you know is out doing business right now!

Suggest a topic or ask a question for me to answer on the show! Share this with 3 people! The more you share, the more we can help each other stay safe.

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Listen to this episode at your next office meeting. Let's get everyone involved.

Open House Safety: Part 1

How do we manage an open house safely? Outside plates of cookies and take home keychains, we need to ensure we run our open houses with a feeling of ease.

Today I share my top tips and best business practices for your real estate needs at an open house.  From partnering with your sellers, to enlisting neighbours invotlvement, and bringing along big shoes.

I look forward to our conversation today as you will get a ton of value. But I bet you have a tip to share on how you run an open house in your real estate practice... if so please share it with me and the rest of the realtor® community. 

Next time we will delve further into Open House Safety talking about casing, theft, and the distraction technique.