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STORY BEHIND SAFESHOW INC.

Our story starts off in a small suburban town in Pennsylvania. Christina, our realtor, has been working with a young couple for approximately 2 months and is now showing houses to her first time buyers.

Christina, a seasoned realtor, has shown approximately 6-8 homes to this couple! Generally, the couple likes to see homes on the weekend or in the evenings after 5:00 pm. A good relationship with trust has been developed between Christina and this couple.

The homes are both twins and singles ranging between $110,000 and $130,000. The school district is rated well and is a concern to the couple who state they are planning to start a family soon.

One Saturday in late November 1997, Christina was planning on showing three more homes to the couple that day. It was a beautiful, sunny day and the two parties were to meet separately at the first appointment. The man showed up and met Christina. She asked where his fiancée' was and he replied that he was alone and she could not make it. He would like to see the homes without her today.

The first home they saw was a rancher that an elderly couple owned. The owners just so happened to be home when Christina and her client saw the house. The second house was a 60 to 70 year old twin. This house was vacant and required Christina to get the key out of the lockbox hanging on the front door. After entering the house, Christina started to feel a bit strange, but was not able to put her finger on why. The two proceeded to the upstairs and entered a small bedroom. Christina went in the room first and her client entered after her, closing the door behind him. Christina realized that the man she had trusted and worked with for all of this time, was now basically someone she did not know at all. This stranger grabbed her and tried to attack her! When Christina yelled as loud as she could, the man became startled enough for Christina to get out of the house. The man soon after tried to explain himself to Christina. She immediately told her broker of this incident and ended the relationship with her clients.

Soon after, Christina and her husband, Richard, started researching crime in the Real Estate Industry. Many well-documented crimes existed: murders, rapes, assaults, etc…All to realtors in vacant or empty homes. Also, Christina and Richard did some research by randomly asking realtors about their safety concerns and how they felt when showing vacant homes. Not really to their surprise, agents spoke out by telling of some incidences that happened to them and that they were very concerned about their safety. Some of these concerns were even brought to the attention of state realtor officials, but they seemed to be brushed under the carpet in a "Don't worry about it" attitude.

During Richard and Christina's research, coincidentally, a 20/20 episode aired and was all about murders and crimes in the Real Estate Industry. 20/20 interviewed several realtors and brokers regarding the crimes that occurred and also how they were going to prevent any future crimes from occurring. No solutions were given to prevent future crimes other than to be aware. Some brokers were sending two salespeople out together to protect each other. Other brokers considered sending their salespeople to karate classes.

Christina and Richard decided that better measures should be taken to protect brokers and salespeople from being harmed in these vulnerable settings. At that point the SAFESHOW PRODUCTS were conceived. These products were to be: easily accessible, easy to use, not offensive to the salesperson's clients and most of all, to give the realtor showing a house a sense of security!

This is the story of SAFESHOW, INC. "Bringing Safety to The Real Estate Industry."

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