Waco, TX Real Estate Agents Lock and Load

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Real Estate Agents Take Concealed Carry Class:

A group of 26 real estate agents from the Waco Association of Realtors recently took the 10-hour concealed carry class needed to qualify for a Texas concealed handgun license (CHL).

“The group decided to take the class together this month to observe Realtor Safety Month, as declared by the National Association of Realtors,” said Tara DeLeon, executive assistant at the Waco Association of Realtors, as reported by the Waco Tribune. “All in the group passed the course, and many said they will be packing heat while pointing out the finer points of homes for sale.”

“I definitely will be carrying [a concealed handgun],” said Donna Sharp, an agent with Premiere Realty. “I would suggest anyone in a service profession like this to take this course. Things happen, and you never know when it could happen to you.”

As the Tribune noted, being a real estate agent can be quite risky. They meet complete strangers, often at empty houses, at various times of the day and night. In other cities, agents have been targeted by criminals for robbery and worse.

Parnell McNamara taught the concealed carry class to the Waco agents.

According to the Tribune, McNamara said he has taught concealed carry classes that feature members of the same profession, including a number of bank employees and one class with nine ministers. But the real estate association was the largest group he has taught from one profession.

“Real estate agents are very vulnerable,” McNamara said. “I think it is great that they want to learn how to protect themselves.”


Texas Real Estate Agents Take Concealed Carry Class
 
This is a good idea on their behalf. I know when I first was shopping for a home years ago my Realtor showed me a house that needed some work in a pretty good neighborhood. We were down in the basement and I was looking at the furnace when some homeless guy got woke up by us in the room...anyways we left...didn't consider that house...

Two years ago when I went to sell the house I did buy I had some runaway teen girl sleep and shower in my house one night. The house was unoccupied and staged for open houses/walk throughs. She had broke in the back door, and slept on the floor in one of the bedrooms one night when it snowed. She got flushed out by a showing the next day. I was pretty pissed at the time, but she caused minimal cleanup and maybe $10 of damage.

I've by no means a lot of experience with real estate, and I've encountered two homeless break-ins so it must be fairly common. You never know who or what you are going to get with someone who is homeless, or willing to break into a house, so they ought to be prepared for the worst.
 
Good for them!
I remember a news story out of DFW where a female real estate agent was both raped and stabbed to death while she was working inside a model home in an upscale neighborhood. $hit happens, it's better to be prepared imho.
 
I know that if my wife was showing strangers empty houses in random neighborhoods id want her carrying...
 

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