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Working as a real estate agent brings with it a gauntlet of security risks. Vacant property security is crucial in ensuring safety for real estate agents, especially in rough neighborhoods. Squatters and resentful former home-owners often haunt foreclosed properties that lack a proper board-up job, and Chicago and Detroit board-up operations are becoming completely necessary in those areas. Beyond seeing the board-up done properly, a real estate agent can follow a few basic practices to ensure his or her safety on the job.

Vacant property security, like your personal safety, begins with common sense. If you are working as a real estate agent, you should always take care to only visit properties during daylight hours. Park your car on the street where people around the neighborhood can see it. Ensure that someone you trust to have your best interests in mind, like family, coworkers, or employers know where you are and can check on you to ensure your safety. You might even want to have a coworker, friend, or a family member come with you while you are showing the property.

You should always take care to inspect the exterior of any vacant property before entering. Keep an eye out for clues of breaking and entering, such as broken windows or kicked-in doors. If you suspect that the property has been tampered with or that someone is actively inside the property, call the police. Squatters present too high of a risk to confront on one’s own, and the police are specially trained to deal with the situation.

Beyond the risk of squatters, the prospects themselves must check out. You should know who you are going to meet before you meet them. Inform customers that company policy dictates that you get a photocopy of all customers’ driver’s licenses, and be sure to introduce them to some other staff at your firm. Criminals don’t want people that can pick their face out of a lineup. Protect yourself from violence by carrying out these common-sense vacant property security protocols, and you might save your own life.

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