On February 2, 2008 a fellow realtor and Re/Max agent in Canada was killed answering a call to show property.
Canadian police have confirmed Tuesday that 24-year-old real estate agent Lindsay Buziak was stabbed while showing property on a vacant $964,900 house.
Rumours circulating in the real estate industry say Buziak was lured to the house, through a phone call on Saturday from a woman with a strong Spanish accent who asked to see properties in the $1-million price range.
She allegedly told Buziak she intended to buy that day. Later, Buziak reportedly received a phone call from a man who said he alone would meet with her.
Buziak told friends in her Re/Max Camosun office that she was uncomfortable about the appointment.
She reportedly asked her live-in boyfriend, fellow real estate agent Jason Zailo, to meet her later at the house.
A Saanich detective and a forensic identification officer were present at a forensic autopsy performed Tuesday in Vancouver as officers try to determine how and why Buziak was killed Saturday in a vacant home listed for sale on De Sousa Place in Gordon Head. Results of that autopsy should be released Wednesday.
The agent said to others that she felt uncomfortable about the appointment.
Please follow your "gut" feelings when you are meeting new people and potential buyers and sellers.
If a buyer calls you, please have them visit your office first, to meet the first, and get a copy of their driver's license, and give it to your broker, before you put them in your car.
Also, better yet, have them speak to a loan officer about pre-approval, before you get them in your car and drive out there and they cannot even afford the place.
This is common sense, but I feel it needs to be said because of this recent tragic event.
This girl was a beautiful 24 year realtor, probably so excited about a ptential sale of $964,900.
Let's all mourn the loss of this beautiful young lady who tried to do what we all have to make it in this business. She made a mistake that cost her, her life.
May this post save lives today, this is to all my realtor friends in Active Rain. God Bless.
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