DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Authorities have made a breakthrough in the 15-year-old cold case of realtor Ashley Oakland, whose death significantly impacted real estate industry practices.<\/p>\n
Oakland was found shot during an open house in West Des Moines in April 2011. Following her death, realtors in the Des Moines area created a safety pledge to enhance security measures. The pledge encourages realtors to work in pairs, use safety apps, and conduct thorough research on clients. This pledge has since become a standard practice.<\/p>\n
Gavin Blair, CEO of Iowa Realtors, emphasized the lasting impact of Oakland’s death.<\/p>\n
“It put it in everybody’s forefront that, hey, this is every job’s dangerous to some degree, but you really need to take seriously when you’re meeting, for example, a client you’ve never met before,” Blair said. “Do your homework. Understand who they are, where they came from.”<\/p>\n
Since the introduction of the Des Moines safety pledge, agencies across all 50 states have adopted these principles to ensure realtor safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Authorities have made a breakthrough in the 15-year-old cold case of realtor Ashley Oakland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25599,1331,143,145,144,388,33063,103543,103544,103545,3607],"class_list":["post-227642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-cold-case","tag-murder","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-agents","tag-real-estate-industry","tag-realtor-safety","tag-realtors","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}