Green Country Real Estate Agents Learn Self Defense

Just two months after a real estate broker in Arkansas was killed showing a home, Tulsa real estate agents are taking action by educating themselves in a self-defense workshop.

Sunday, November 9th 2014, 8:23 pm

By: News On 6

Green Country Real Estate Agents Learn Self Defense

Just two months after a real estate broker in Arkansas was killed showing a home, Tulsa real estate agents are taking action by educating themselves in a self-defense workshop.

Builder Rausch Coleman is inviting agents from across the city to sign up for this workshop. The hope I that they'll gain tools on how address dangerous situations and to hopefully avoid something unthinkable like what happened in Arkansas.

It's something real estate agents do every day, and it's something that could put them at risk to become victims of crime.

"In an open house, I've been approached by a man and he just invaded my personal space,” Realtor Apryl Pritchett said. “And I would take a step back and he would take a step forward, and you know, it was very unnerving."

And it's these kinds of situations, self-defense trainer and retired Green Beret Clint Dooley is helping real estate agents train for.

It's a risk agents take when they meet with strangers alone, but also by simply putting their faces on business cards.

"You know I was like, if I was a predator, I would know exactly what this woman looks like, I know where she works and I could go online and figure out where she's going to be next,” Dooley said. “That's the big risk."

It was put into perspective in September when Beverly Carter, an Arkansas broker, was murdered. She went to show a home and never returned.

In the words of her accused killer: "She was a woman that worked alone -- a rich broker."

“The more tools that I have in my tool kit, the safer I'll be and the quicker I can get home to my family, and I mean, that's the most important thing at the end of the day -- making it home,” Pritchett said.

Real estate agents can sign up for the self-defense training at the grand opening of The Trails at White Hawk in Bixby from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.

Sessions will start Friday and be first come first serve. Click here for more information.