Yesterday morning In West Covina, CA a woman called 911 about a burglar in her home. The burglar shot and killed her WHILE she was on the telephone with the 911 operator. Needless to say there was not much police could do once they got to her home.
In many large cities it can take several minutes before you even get connected with a 911 operator. Once that happens your emergency has to be first understood by the operator and then transmitted to a local dispatcher, who in turn, must relay the information to the patrol officers on the street. Patrol officers then must commute to your location which may be hampered by mistakes and/or misinformation within the chain of no less than four people.
Protect yourself! Make it a point to have the local police department dispatch number programed on your cell phone for all of your listings. How many times have you found squatters in your vacant listings? With the increase in REOs we can expect a higher risk of finding squatters on the premises. Just two weeks ago I went to preview a home that was a new listing supposedly vacant. I arrived at the property and luckily I didn't have to enter the home to know someone was squatting on the property.
You never know who is in there, why they're there, nor what they are doing in there. Protect yourself! Call the local dispatch directly to get the fastest response time I know I have West Covina Police dispatch in my phone.
It will always be better to overreact to the situation than to be sorry.
Seth Miller - Team Chacon West Covina REALTOR Keller Williams West Covina West Covina, California | info@TeamChacon.com  | |
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