Getting caught on camera when viewing homes

I always stress to my buyers to treat the homes they view as if it were their own. I understand sellers apprehension when buyers tour their homes so I leave nothing to chance.

I do warn my buyer clients that we may be video or audio recorded--you never know if that teddy bear is actually a nanny cam!

If you google "nanny cams," you will see that there may be cameras in smoke detectors, clocks, fans, books, silk plants, and more. 

Connor, I warn Buyers before we even get in the car, that there could be homes with cameras photographing our every move.

And don't forget a crafty seller is bugging your conversations about their home. Your exclamation that this is the best house you've ever seen! How you'd pay ANYTHING to get this house! I always tell Sellers NOT to go ga-ga over a home because even if the house is not "buyer bugged" you could have a Seller down in the basement or just outside an open window overhearing your conversation. I had a riled up Seller call me once complaining of these "unqualified" buyers who keep visiting his home. He said a Buyer couple just a few minutes before his call came in the front door looked around and literally ran out of the house! Why did they run? They couldn't wait to put pen to paper to write a fabulously great offer!

I try to remind all buyers that they never know when they are being recorded in a seller's home.