Real Estate Crimes

November 15, 2025·41 min·2 clips

Heather reveals how real estate agents risk their lives every time they meet a stranger in an empty home.

Real estate agents walk into unfamiliar houses for a living. Heather treats that as the obvious danger baked into the job: one person, one stranger, one empty property. Dylan gets it right away. The work almost demands that setup, so even smart habits like telling someone where you are going can only do so much. That risk gives the episode its serious thread. Around it, Heather and Dylan keep things loose, bouncing between agreement, disbelief, and side jokes. They know the job can go bad. They also cannot ignore how ridiculous some real estate crimes get. Kayla Marissa Selloff is the wild example. Police responding to a possible burglary find the Houston-area agent with a male companion in a vacant client home, and the former client presses criminal trespass charges. Heather and Dylan land somewhere between shocked and amused. They sit with the awkwardness of trusting someone with your house, then learning the empty rooms were used for a private meetup. The joke keeps stretching. Dylan imagines odd empty-room habits, while Heather keeps dragging the bit back to how strange the decision was in the first place. Then comes Robert Lindsay. The New Jersey agent is described as overpricing a client's house on purpose so it would not sell and could stay available for meetings with another broker. That one feels sneaky and dumb at the same time. The episode keeps returning to trust, because clients hand over keys, access, and appointments to people they barely know. Near the end, Heather widens the danger to delivery drivers who never know what is behind a door, and Dylan turns that into a joke about kids attacking a pizza guy.

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A darkly funny look at the risks of real estate work in empty houses.

Mountain Murders turns real estate work into a darkly funny reminder that empty houses can be a bad place to meet strangers. Heather and Dylan keep the conversation loose and conversational, but they keep landing on the same uneasy point: a showing leaves room for bad judgment,…

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