My husband Jerry is relatively new to real estate. He's not a new agent, but compared to me, he's new. One of his first real estate assignments was to show a vacant house in Chapin. He arrived at the house early to make sure it was in good showing condition, turn the lights on, and pull out all the other tricks from his realtor bag to make sure the house looked the best it could. You can imagine his surprise when he walked into the master bedroom of this vacant house and found a man sleeping in his underwear. I would have been shocked, and any other Realtor on the planet might have screamed. Chapin is one of the safest, nicest lake communities in the world, but still, I am always thinking about safety...my safety and my clients' safety (in my car, going into houses, showing their homes). My clients trust me with their homes and all of the possessions in them, and I don't take that trust lightly. Some buyers who meet me for the first time might wonder why I ask so many questions about them, "where are you from? why are you moving? where do you work? how many children do you have? where do they go to school?..." and while all this information is very useful in finding each buyer the right house, it's also good to know the people I'm meeting for safety reasons. Realtors, like any profession, have heard every kind of "scary person who broke into the vacant home" story out there, but none of this worried my husband. He just looked at the guy and said, "put your pants on, we're showing the house"...and they did.