Best Defense USA
PO Box 129
Hebron, IL 60034
ph: 888-439-1411
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Personal Safety & Self Defense for Real Estate
Protect Your Agentsfrom Crime & Violence
We'll teach your agents how to put habits, tactics, and hardware between themselves and the criminal and dramatically reduce their odds of becoming a victim of violent crime.
Our programs educate Agents and Brokers on how to be safe when showing properties to new clients, at open houses as well as avoiding and surviving the other dangers they face.
This powerful educational experience combines audience participation, demonstration and personal safety tips to enhance learning and increase retention.
The topic is serious but the program is fun! We use humor and interaction to infuse your team with lifesaving information.
Program lengths available for 15 to 120 minutes.
Our fee schedule will fit your budget!
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‘Stranger Danger’ a real issue for agents
If a real estate agent seems to size you up the next time you walk into an open house, don’t take it personally.He or she would love to sell you the home. But they also want to stay safe.
Personal safely isn’t a subject that real estate agents like to talk about, but it’s there in the back of their minds. A quarter of real estate agents surveyed by the National Association of Realtors say they’ve been involved in an unsafe or harassing situation.
With unemployment high and an increasing number of homes falling into foreclosure and sitting vacant, there’s even more cause for the real estate community to be on its guard. Safety is an issue whether it’s a sparkling home in a well-heeled community or beat-up foreclosure with no electricity.
“We put strangers in our cars,” said Pat Mazzone, senior vice president and branch manager of Prudential Preferred Properties’ Michigan Avenue office. “We take strangers to vacant homes. We invite people into vacant open houses.”
Or, as Joe Rosner, a Hebron, Ill.-based self-defense teacher puts it, real estate “is the only business I know where [you] get glamor shots and then use them to advertise where to meet people in vacant houses.”
Rosner spends much of his time these days traveling to real estate offices, speaking to agents about the what-to-do’s and what-not-to-do’s in potentially threatening situations. His talks capture the attention of longtime agents who previously sat motionless during recaps of yet another slow week in residential real estate.
Mazzone has never had a bad experience herself, but on a recent day she had Rosner in her sales meeting so agents could brush up on safety basics.
PO Box 129
Hebron, IL 60034
ph: 888-439-1411
joe
