Many home sellers insist on having open houses. They think that for some odd reason people will go through the open house and then want to buy it. In reality, very few homes ever sell from open houses. While open houses aren’t good for actually selling homes, they are good targets for burglars.
When a real estate agent traditionally shows a house, they are with their clients the entire time, and make sure that the client doesn’t do anything fishy, such as steal. Well with open houses, the hosting real estate agent generally just sits in the living room and gives potential lookers free range of the house.
In this particular instance in San Francisco Real Estate, the open house attendee took it as an opportunity to do a little burglary. Fortunately, the 12 year old girl had a camera set up that caught the thief. Check it out:
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