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Realtors hire house sitters after vacant homes become easy targets
SOUTH SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) Once you put the ‘For Sale’ sign in the front yard, you may have just posted an invitation for squatters and burglars. Local realtors are fed up with the crime targeting their properties and they’re taking up an old tactic again – they’re hiring house sitters.
Samantha Tov sees the desperate and ugly in the real estate industry. The listing agent with Portfolio Real Estate has seen an uptick in people breaking into homes that she’s trying to sell.
“It shocked me that it got broken into two times, three times, and that’s when we hired a house sitter,” Tov told CBS13. “Newer appliances will get stolen. They’ll remove the doors and go through the garage.”