ShareSafety in the real estate profession is often framed around the perspective of residential agents. But commercial agents also need to think about their well-being in the field. Commercial agents deal with different kinds of clients, properties and transactions, so they have distinct safety considerations. Host Tracey Hawkins discusses the nuances between residential and commercial safety with two commercial agents who discuss the precautions they take.
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Meet the Guests
Dawn Aspaas is a broker with Complete Real Estate in Sioux Falls, S.D., and a business transition consultant. She served as the 2022 chair of NAR’s Commercial Leadership Forum. She has more than 38 years of business experience, including business ownership, electronic media and print sales, general management, business-to-business sales, and customer service experience.
Brian Woods is the broker-owner of Team Realty and Investment Solutions in West Palm Beach, Fla., which is one of several brokerages he owns, including a company in Dubai. He is an approved NAR instructor for several designation courses, and he owns a commercial and investment finance company and a real estate school. Woods is licensed to practice real estate in 12 states and internationally.
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About the Host
Tracey Hawkins, also known as “Tracey, the Safety Lady,” is a former real estate agent who founded her own safety education program, Safety and Security Source, in 1995. Hawkins is a content creator who teaches 12 interactive safety classes that she wrote herself. She teaches agents to stay safe and build their businesses by protecting the consumer. She teaches brokerages how to reduce liability. Hawkins has written expert safety content for REALTOR® Magazine and other national real estate publications, including RISMedia, Inman and The Close.