I know many families who are trying to sell of their homes because foreclosure is looming. The bad part is that more and more people are choosing to do it themselves to save the real estate agent fees.

The problem with this is simple, you are opening your home to strangers and if they come when you are alone and you still let them in you can find yourself in trouble.

We just had a homeowner attacked here over the weekend. She was selling her own home and having an open house. A guy showed up early and was supposedly interested in the home and wanted to see it.

Here is where desperation came in, she let him in thinking she might get the sale. Instead he pistol whipped her and then tied her up. She was lucky enough to break free and run for help.

She is VERY fortunate to only walk away from this with a beating cause you can imagine what could and probably was going to happen to her.

This goes for more than just selling houses, it goes for anything like that. There have been many people selling some type of item who have been robbed, raped and even killed by someone who used this as a way in.

People tend to drop their guard when potential money is involved but it can cost you big.

If you have something, whether it be your home, car or even a bicycle, there are some simple rules to follow.

The most obvious rule, keep your self defense weapon of choice handy no matter how harmless someone looks.

Tell your friends, family and neighbor if you plan on having strangers come over; especially if you are crazy enough to be alone doing this.

Make sure you never let them walk behind you. When walking them into your home, they go first and you follow. Better to be attacked from the front if it is going to come.

Keep yourself an out. What I mean is simple, keeping them in front of you like I just mentioned, allows you to have a clear path to a door out. If someone goes wrong you can run for it.

Like I mentioned, selling things to strangers when alone is just plain crazy. This goes for any female realtor you may know.

Be prepared to defend yourself which means a lot more than just having some type of weapon. You need to mentally decide you will NOT be a victim. Attitude can make a huge difference.

And the golden rule…..when in doubt kick em in the junk and run screaming your head off! Much easier to apologize to the now high pitched man than to take the chance and be attacked.

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