Nevada Realtor Connects With New Client. Then She Gets a Weird Gut Feeling on Her Way To Meet Him. She Wasn’t Wrong: ‘This Job Is Dangerous’

Working as a real estate agent when you’re a woman can mean putting yourself in some unnerving situations. After all, the job often requires agents to meet strangers inside vacant homes, private properties, and enclosed spaces.

Obviously, that can get scary.

According to one Nevada realtor on TikTok, if you instinctively feel that something is off, you should listen to that voice every single time.

In a recent storytime video, creator Nicole (@nicolerealestateboss) says she did exactly that and canceled a showing after she arrived at the property. Her video got over 438,600 views.

What Made This Realtor Cancel An Appointment Last-Minute?

“Reminder to all you realtors out there, especially females, please listen to your gut when you go to meet a new client,” Nicole says.

She explains that a new lead contacted her and said he wanted to see a property. From there, Nicole says she followed her usual process.

“I get them on a buyer’s call,” she says. “I do my whole thing, right. We set up the showing; we’re supposed to meet.”

However, as she was driving there, something felt wrong.

“I just keep getting this weird feeling,” she recalls. “And if you’re a female, I mean, I guess it happens to men too, but women, I’m telling you, female intuition.”

Looking back, Nicole says one detail from the buyer’s intake call already felt odd.

“Keep in mind, on the buyer’s intake call, he kept his sunglasses on,” she says. “Normally something like that really wouldn’t raise too many flags, but there was just something about it.”

She says she wondered why the man had his sunglasses on while he was inside his house.

Still, the situation seemed normal enough on paper. According to Nicole, the man sent over a preapproval, and the type of home they discussed sounded standard.

“The houses that we talked about during the buyer’s intake call were very standard, like, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, medium sized yard,” she says. “It was so basic, nothing about it kinda raised any flags.”

Then the client sent her the property he wanted to see.

“The property that he sends me is nothing like the property we were discussing on the buyer’s call,” Nicole says. “So that in itself, I’m just like, this is odd.”

She says the property sat much farther out of town. It had a massive lot, several sheds, and a small manufactured home.

Alarm Bells Go Off

Nicole says rural properties are not unusual in Northern Nevada. But this one kept setting off alarm bells.

“As I’m driving out there, like I said, I just keep getting this weird feeling,” she says.

When she arrived, the buyer was already there. His truck, she says, was parked near the entrance in a way that made it hard to get onto the property.

Then she noticed something else.

“As I go to pull in to kinda weasel by this guy, he’s not in his truck, by the way, so I don’t know where he’s at on the lot,” she explains.

That’s when she says she saw another beat-up truck moving behind a shed.

“I see it, like, jerked back behind the shed,” Nicole says. “Like, it was moving as I was driving so it wouldn’t be seen.”

Instead of pulling in, Nicole backed up and drove around the lot.

“And sure enough, there is another vehicle with a man in it creeping behind one of the barn shed-looking things,” she says.

Nicole says she knew the man was trying to hide because of how he reacted when she drove by.

“As I roll by, he slams his head down, like, hides in his seat,” she says.

At the same time, Nicole says she also saw the original buyer crouching down on the other side of his truck.

“I don’t know if the plan was, I pull in, he gets back in his truck and covers the gate,” she says. “I don’t know, you guys. Here’s the thing. No one is gonna tell me otherwise.”

So she canceled the appointment.

“I just send the buyer a message that says, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m canceling your appointment. Please find another realtor,’” she says.

According to Nicole, he never responded.

“And at the end of the day, guess what? Maybe it was absolutely nothing,” she says. “Maybe I’m reading into it…maybe this guy was there and his uncle was parked around the corner. But also maybe not.”

Are There Safety Concerns For a Realtor?

Many women in the industry say they regularly deal with uncomfortable or unsafe situations while working.

In one Reddit post, a user reported “being constantly objectified or unwillingly solicited for s*xual services.” They said it happened so often that it negatively affected their mental health.

Another wrote, “I get many buyers flirting with me, asking me non-business oriented questions… These people are usually leads and someone who I’ve just met or unrepresented sellers.”

The National Association of Realtors treats agent safety as a serious enough issue to have a dedicated Realtors’ Safety Program. Its 2024 safety report also found that women agents were twice as likely as men to say they had experienced a situation at work that made them fear for their safety.

The industry’s basic safety advice includes vetting new contacts, meeting first in public, sharing your location with co-workers, working in pairs when possible, using code words, and having a safety plan.

Nicole’s advice was similar. “Stay vigilant, listen to your gut, ladies,” she says. “Anything out there that starts to raise a red flag to you, just follow it.”

Commenters Backed Her Up

In the comments, several viewers said Nicole made the right call.

“Maybe you should call the police & report it,” one commenter wrote.

Nicole responded, “I did.”

Another viewer said the story reminded them of their own safety concerns in a different job.

“As a cna this is why i stopped working home health,” they wrote.

Someone else pointed out that the buyer’s lack of response felt telling.

“I’m sorry but if something wasn’t up, I can imagine the buyer would text you super confused as to why their apt was canceled,” they wrote. “Goes to show you made the right call.”

Another realtor said they had recently gone through something similar.

“Wow…I just had a crazy/scary situation happen to me at an open house last weekend, and my intuition kicked in like never before,” they wrote. “I thankfully followed it as well. You can never be too safe. Always follow that feeling.”

@nicolerealestateboss This was one of those moments it makes me question why I do this job. It’s only happened a few times in my career, but it just reminds me to stay vigilant. So please please please. Listen to your gut. No amount of money is worth putting yourself in a potentially dangerous situation. ##femalerealestateagent##Realtor##realtoroftiktok##newrealestateagent ♬ original sound – Nicole | The Listing Therapist

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