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Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly
The Real Estate Adviser
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January 18, 2001

Time for hard look at safety

  • This is the second of a two-part series dealing with Realtor safety in the wake of a murder at a home for sale in Woodinville.
    • By TOM KELLY
    The Real Estate Advisor

    Should real estate agents absolutely work in pairs? Is there any realistic way of better ensuring the safety of salespersons -- and other professionals -- that routinely show empty homes to complete strangers?

    The subject surfaced again recently when he body Michael Emert, 40, an agent with Windermere Real Estate since 1991, was discovered by the owner of a home for sale in Woodinville, just north of the high-tech corridor Northeast of downtown Seattle. Police believe Emert might have been showing the home to a prospective buyer when he was stabbed to death. No arrests have been made, although police spoke with "person of interest" in the case.


     
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