The Platform Built with Female Realtors Safety in mind!
"Selling Real estate is considered one of the highest-risk profession by security experts for women"
Women make up the majority of real estate agents in the U.S., generally representing around 64-66% of all REALTORS® (members of the National Association of REALTORS®), with slightly different percentages for sales agents (around 68%) versus brokers (around 59-61%). While they dominate residential sales, women are still underrepresented in lucrative areas like commercial real estate and leadership roles, and face a persistent pay gap
Lindsay Buziak's story
On February 1, 2008, 24-year-old real estate agent Lindsay Buziak got a call from a woman with a heavy accent requesting to view a $1 million home
Buziak thought it was odd that she'd been singled out for such a big sale so early in her career, but she was excited about the opportunity. She arranged to meet the caller, whose name she never wrote down, at a house near Victoria, British Columbia the following evening. But since she still felt suspicious of the caller, she asked her boyfriend Jason Zailo to meet her at the house and wait outside in case anything happened.
At around 5:30 p.m. on February 2nd, eyewitnesses saw Buziak meeting a pair of clients in front of the house: a tall man with dark hair and a long jacket, and a woman with short blonde hair and a distinctive red and black patterned dress. When Zailo arrived soon after, he texted Buziak to let her know he was outside. But as the minutes ticked by without any response to his texts and calls, Zailo began to worry. Eventually, he entered the house to look for Buziak — and found her in an upstairs bedroom, lying in a puddle of her own blood. She had been stabbed to death.
To this day, police still don't know who killed Lindsay Buziak. The man and woman she'd met that day have never been identified, and while police were able to track the number of the woman who'd set up the appointment, it had been registered under a false name — and had only ever been used to contact Buziak.
Advantages of DNA Squared (Date Night Across America)
1). Provides safety for Female Realtors, they no longer need to share commissions or bring someone with them to show a home or a open house.
2). Eliminates weekend open houses, allowing weekend time with family, for buyers, sellers and the realtors most importantly.
2a). It becomes a competitive environment where multiple buyers are at the open house/s.
3). An exclusive real estate marketing program for participating members only.
4). An exclusive marketing program for participating homeowners
5). A date night out for couples
6). Buyers can see their prospective new home in a entertainment setting at night rather than during the day.
7).DNA Squared provides a marketing program for home owners that allows a higher likelihood of a double ended sale.
8). Realtors are more willing to work with buyers under these circumstances.
9). Participating members pay $49.99 to be part of the monthly (it's a Members Only club!!!
"High risk no more," via DNA²
The National National Association of Realtors official magazine posted an article dated September 2010 titled Real-Estate's 6 Most Dangerous Everyday Situations, The article quoted the following -
"Selling Real estate is considered by security experts as a high-risk profession"
says Robert Siciliano, CEO of RealtySecurity.com in Boston.
"the industry opens itself up to predators”
“The root of the issue is that you have real estate agents with no formal security training who are then meeting with complete strangers at odd times of the day and in vacant homes,” Siciliano says. “Real estate professionals put themselves at risk at so many points. The industry opens itself up to predators.”
BY TAMI VROMA (Real Estate Agent with West Michigan Real Estate Specialist-Five Star Real Estate)
Whether we want to admit it or not, women are sometimes at a serious disadvantage. It has nothing to do with knowledge about the intricacies of real estate. It has nothing to do with the fact that we have to take time off to have babies. Women, I believe, are pretty much equals with men in real estate with one huge exception it was the way God created us, but we are smaller and for the most part will never have the power that a man has. Unfortunately, there are men out there in the world who will exploit that weakness to their advantage. I let my guard down last week but ,by the Grace of God, a mistake kept me safe when I believe it could have been horrible.
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