Attached here is the latest Police Report Just another
reason why you should ONLY show your home to qualified buyers with an agent by
appointment only.
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Police Report
When we place your home on the market we do not hold public open houses. We insist that buyers coming through your home must be qualified by an agent with respect to their actually being a buyer in search of their new home.
Here are a few of the reasons we do not hold open houses. All of the following are excerpts from the Toronto Real Estate Board to it's members to watch for thieves at open houses. The actual copies of the publications are rather large so I haven't place them online but I will of course show them to you when we get together to market your home.
If you are on our "Preferred Buyer" program, we even suggest you go and see open houses other agents are showing. We know many agents continue holding them so we'd may as well take advantage of it. We just ask you as our "Preferred Buyer" to let the agent holding the open house know that we are your agents and that if you like the home your offer will be coming from us.
One Toronto Real Estate Board member reported that a suspicious-looking gentleman who did not even have a business card for identification lurked around her open house, but left when he sensed that she was watching him carefully. Unfortunately he was working in a team. Several minutes later a colleague who presented a phoney business card feigned interest in the house then stole a wallet belonging to the Vendor.
A man posing as an agent at an open house is approximately 45 years of age, tall, slim, balding and professionally dressed with grey-rimmed glasses......
Saleswomen wanted to be careful Peel regional police are still looking for a man who. claiming to be an interested buyer, lured a lone female agent into a vacant home last November and sexually assaulted her. Agents in the Brampton area have been warned to be on the lookout for a middle-aged white male with a slight Scottish accent.
A man who posed as both a real estate salesperson and a purchaser and is suspected in several open house robberies in the Yonge/Eglinton/Lawrence area is still at large and members are wanted to be on the lookout.
A man suspected of numerous open house robberies in the Toronto, London and Windsor areas has been apprehended in Windsor. The suspected, who posed as either a bank manager, purchaser or real estate salesperson, under a variety of false names, is thought to have robbed several open houses .......
The most promising markets are listings in affluent neighbourhoods especially if the owners are elderly and don't have any children since young couples with children tend to hide drugs and discard old prescriptions. In most cases, one will distract the salesperson while the other searches bathrooms, hallways closets, dresser drawers and nightstands.
Ed & Dianna Robinson (Brokers)
Keller Williams
Referred Realty
416.445.8855