ASSALAMUALAIKUM
today class was postponed at night which is at lab. We were asked to do an essay again. As usual, we have to divide into 5 groups. My group members are Afiq, Nisa, Amanda, Hajar and Rina (me) . Miss Zu asked us to choose 1 of the 5 movie clips. my group got movie (OPEN HOUSE THIEVE )
this is the my group essay :
Open
houses are a long-standing tradition in the sale of residential real estate to
show more people to a home for sale. The real estate agents put out signs on
road or near street corners to draw drive-by traffic and usually list the homes
in the real estate sections of newspapers to bring in more people. At an open
house, the real estate agents show off their latest properties and entice
prospective buyers with the warmth and luxury of a "lived-in" home.
But this time-honoured tradition has unexpectedly opened the door to more than
just interested buyers (Johnson, 2012). Thieves are also finding gold mines in
these attractive homes. The are some factors of people stealing some of item in
an open house which are they being attracted the items in the house, lack of
securities as well as they have influence by friends to take some of the items
in the house.
The
first factor that contribute people to steal in an open house is they attracted
to the items that have in the open house as a display. Some of the open house
put a valueable thing as a display to make more attractive and ellegent for
viewing. Normally open house events and home viewings are a wonderful for
getting your house noticed in a big way. However, while the majority of people
coming through our home are likely to be
legitimate prospective buyers, there is also the risk that some of them will be
more interested in what they can steal from our home. According to (Sharon,2012),
some of person use a tactic act like a pergnant women. It is because to
discover their stelling thing. So, the people do not notice than they are
actualy as a thief. Open house thieves are quick to size up the flow of the
crowd and opportunities to steal. Favorite targets include glassware,
silverware, jewelry, laptops, and prescription drugs. Some thieves are even
cagey enough to steal only a few pills instead of the whole bottle so the theft
will go unnoticed. Thus, the best way solution of this problem is the open
house should remove the valuable things. Do not put them in a drawer that it
is too easy for a thief to open it when
no one is looking. Instead, lock them in the trunk of your car or place them in
a safety deposit box. (Rowland, n.d.)
The
second factor of people stealing in an open house is no
securities provided by the real estate agent in the open house. When no securities in the open house, people
easily steal the value things on the table, kitchen and everywhere. Real estate
agent must aware the visitor that come in the house because we are do not know
whether they have a good or bad attitudes. This problem we must solve because
it makes the agent loss to pay all the lost things. In order to solve this
problem , real estate agent must put a security cameras in and out a house. In
addition , real estate agent must put minimum 10 security camera at different
place for example dining room , room , kitchen , garage , stare and outside the
house. This solution can make the visitors or thieves scare to steal a things
in a house because the security camera is monitor by the security guard. Based
from a information of safe guard the world in the United Stated home break-ins
occur every 13 seconds and homes without security systems are up to 300% more
likely to be broken into.
Finally,
influenced from bad friends also one of the factors for stealing from the open
house. Mostly,every open house stiil got an item for them to display since
someone did not confirmly buy the house and the house still have the truthful
owner. Based on this situation, the thieft will take this chance to openly
steal the item from the houses.They will bring one or two friends to back up
them when they stealing but,sometimes the thieft also will influence their
friends to take part and steal from the houses. This in turn causes someone who
did not even think about stealing to
steal and soon it will become bad habits for them. It shown how influence from
friends which is long time thieft will cause someone who only come to the open
house to see the house, become a thieft and steal an items from the open house.
Hence, to solve this problem they should take time to think about this
situation. According to Neik (2012), they should think for a moment and take a
little space about the person they are right now compared to the person they
were when they in one or two years ago. What qualities have they take from the
people who surround them? If the change come in positive or negative ways?If
their friends only influenced them to take part in stealing escpecially in open
house it directly shown that they are not a good person to be with.People like
them will never back up when someone is getting trouble and only thinking about
their self pleasures and according to Neik (2012), sometimes we have to leave
behind those who are not willing top change with us to do good activities.
In
conclusion, being attracted at the things in the house, lack of securities and
influence by bad friends are the three factors which contribute to the stealing
from open house. The habit of stealing must be prevented as this can give
impact especially to the real estate agent.
It will also be affected by the other visitors who came to the open
house. This is because the open house is to show to he visitors or buyers who
want to buy the house. It will be not interesting if the open house is empty
without any decorations or items in it. Therefore, it is necessary that real
estate agents as well as the visitors to do some efforts to overcome this
problem such as hire safety guard, hide or remove the valuable items in the
house and think before do an action.
REFERENCES
Johnson,
J. (2012). Demand media. Retrieved August 21, 2012, from homeguides.sfgate.com/meaning-open-houses-1222.html
Neik,
A. (2012). How your friends influene your life. Retrieved August 21, 2012, from
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22050/83744-friends-influence
Rowland,
T. (n.d.). Estate homes and properties. Retrieved August 21, 2012, from http://www.homesbytia.com/avoid-theft-during-an-open-house-pasadena-ca.htm
Safe
guard the world. (2008). Retrieved August 21, 2012, from http://www.safeguardtheworld.com/statistics.html
Sharon G.F, (2012,
April 10) Protecting yourself aginst
open house theft.. Retrieved August 21, 2012, from http://voices.yahoo.com/protecting-yourself-against-open- house-theft-11195196.html
I think that all for today. By all the practice that i had done, i hope that can improve my english.
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