Originally Posted by alpha_omega
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Didn't think this was worth its own thread, but it happened in Grandview so I figured I'd just put it here.
Also never heard of an agent just letting people look without them onsite. If that was happening it's easy to see how someone could get the lockbox code.
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Investigation underway for how thieves accessed lockbox of Grandview home for sale
GRANDVIEW, Mo. — Thieves stole video game systems from a Grandview home Tuesday afternoon. Now realtors and people selling homes are being put on alert.
Signs outside the Grandview home just east of 71 Highway advertise “Open House Everyday.” Tuesday, there were three scheduled showings and a last-minute booking and prompt cancellation.
Two boys, 18 and 19, live there with their family. They love to play the video game NBA 2K on a pair of Xbox next-gen consoles they just bought two weeks ago.
“We bought them together as a graduation thing because we graduate at the same time,” Eli Boyd said.
But when they returned home after being asked to vacate the home for the showings, they were missing.
“We walk in there and they are not there, and we are like, what happened?” Mechi Boyd said.
“We started shuffling through all the doors in the house and we were like, no, somebody definitely stole it,” Eli said.
The video game systems didn’t disappear during the showings, but later Tuesday afternoon as evidenced by cameras placed outside the home that captured the theft.
Video shows two women show up to the home in a dark Mercedes while on the phone, and then leave after just a couple minutes each with an Xbox in hand.
Grandview police haven’t yet said they are looking for the women, so FOX4 can’t show you their faces.
“We worked hard for that. That’s like two weeks of labor just cracking out and gone in a matter of minutes,” Mekhi said.
The family noticed something else on the video happening during the process of selling the home.
“There are people that come solo, which to my understanding is not proper protocol, so that’s a little bit concerning,” their mother Shannon Stoops said.
We talked with a realtor not involved with the sale or potential purchase of the home who told FOX4 real estate agents should never give someone who says they are interested in buying a home the code to get inside.
“A buyer should never be in a house unaccompanied by their realtor, for safety, for insurance reasons, and honestly just for ethical reasons,” Jocelyn Rivard said.
Rivard also points out the Kansas City Regional Association of Realtors has more secure lock boxes that can only be opened by Bluetooth via a subscription service on realtor’s phones.
There are several showings scheduled at the home Thursday, but we are told the seller’s agent now plans to be there for all of them just in case buyer’s agents aren’t present. The family is also having interior cameras installed.
Working For You, we reached out to Grandview police to find out if they are investigating any other cases like this, but we didn’t hear back Wednesday.
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