Most real estate agents—from Pennsylvania agents to professionals
holding South Carolina real estate continuing education—are unaware or
unmindful of the dangers of their work. It is not a job that usually carries
with it the dangers of say a policeman’s—but it can be dangerous, as a
Pennsylvania realtor found out recently.
On May 21, agent Sharron Minnich of Prudential Bob Yost
Realtors in West York was abducted and forced at knifepoint to withdraw money
from an automatic teller machine.
The abductor, who posed as a prospective buyer, was
arrested shortly after the incident. The incident exemplifies the dangers that real estate
agents constantly face but unfortunately consistently are underappreciated as
they go about their tasks, which regularly include holding open houses for
sellers, driving buyers around to show them properties, or simply meeting a
prospective client for the first time.
