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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding safety:

"Also, there are safety issues in play, and I think agents need to be careful about meeting people they have never met"

Disclose to sellers prior to your agreement they'll need to provide a security guard for you to show the listing to unrepresented qualified buyers. The seller can sign with you, and pay for security. That is their choice. Or sellers can sign with another listing agent who does not require this.

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This is hysterical.

A buyers agent previously would show a house to a buyer without anyone else there.

This is no different.

If now you’re unwilling to show a house without a security guard or other agent attending then you should have had this same stance 5 years ago.

You’re grasping as straws here as to why someone needs to pay 2% to let them into a house.  [/quote]

I have no stake in this but it's very different. A buyer agent presumably already has a relationship with a client. A listing agent is essentially being cold called by people they've never met. It's not the same thing.

The safety concern might be overblown, but there's some basis in reality. https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/real-estate-agent-murders

It took more than a decade to find the killer of Nancy Dunning in Alexandria (she was killed by a serial killer).

So, there's some risk in the profession. Introducing an element of randomness to the equation probably heightens that risk.[/quote]

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