Being a real estate seller involves interacting and being in constant contact with people you don’t know. When it comes to the commercialization of good of such magnitude and not knowing who you are dealing with, you may find yourself vulnerable to certain frequent criminal actions in this sector.
To avoid this and increase your security, it is important that you take some preventive measures in order to reduce the risks to which, as a real estate agent, you may be exposed.
For this reason, we share some prevention measures and safety tips that will help you carry out a better execution of your procedure, making it safer and more efficient.
- Verify customer information. When you are facing a new client, it is important that you ask a series of questions that allow you to know a little about the person. Data such as your occupation, your origin, your mobile, and landline, or office number if you have one, the means by which he found out about you, if he has children, a partner, or if you are only looking for a property for him.
- Avoid providing personal data. Avoid giving personal information when talking to your clients. Make sure that everything is always kept in a professional relationship. One of the best safety tips is to always separate your social networks, email, and all contact information for work from all your personal media.
- Follow protocols. Follow security protocols for all contact activities you have with your clients from the beginning. You can, for example, make a form where you can enter the information about the person, ask them to fill out a visit record before taking a tour of any property, request a number of people to whom you will show the property and a copy of an official identification of each, always inform the office about your tour appointments, schedules and customer information with whom you will visit the properties, etc.
- Keep your cell phone always at hand. The cell phone is in itself a fundamental tool of the real estate agent to respond and always be aware of calls, messages, or emails from customers. Take advantage of this tool also for your safety. Whenever you make tours of buildings, it is important that you make sure you have enough battery and that you have an emergency number on hand to help you in case you ever find yourself in a difficult situation.