Good 1st encounter
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:20 pm
One of the foreclosures I'm managing is in a pretty nice, isolated neighborhood. They have a strong neighborhood watch and had actually been giving me hell for awhile about this house (long personal property eviction process so the grass had gotten a little long and there was "trash" in the driveway that we couldn't touch until after the eviction).
Eviction finally got done and I was at the house to take pictures and do my evaluation. I'm standing in the front yard taking outside photos when the police car pulls up. Two officers get out.
Neighbors had called about a "suspicious person".......little ol' me, my clipboard and my camera look VERY suspicious!!!!
I explain that I'm the licensed real estate broker managing the property and I'm taking pictures and evaluating the property. They ask me for my ID.
So now, for the first time, I get to say it........"I am a licensed CHL holder and I am carrying."
I tell them my ID is in the right pocket of my vest and unzip the pocket and take out my license holder and try to hand it to the officer. He tells me to take it out of the holder. I ask him if he wants my DL or CHL or both. He just wants the DL.
He walks off to run my DL and the other one asks to see my CHL. I hand it to him. He looks it over and hands it back.
We start talking real estate and this neighborhood in particular. He says they get a lot of calls around here for suspicious activity and most of it amounts to nothing. While he's talking to me, he gets a call for a burglary-in-progress.
I'm thinking, isn't this special that they're wasting their time with me when they need to get to a break-in. Other officer comes back and hands me my DL and tells me to have a good day.
They never asked where or what I was carrying. Both were polite the whole time. I could tell they thought it was a waste of their time too.
So, first one is out of the way and went well.
Ciao.....rg
Eviction finally got done and I was at the house to take pictures and do my evaluation. I'm standing in the front yard taking outside photos when the police car pulls up. Two officers get out.
Neighbors had called about a "suspicious person".......little ol' me, my clipboard and my camera look VERY suspicious!!!!
I explain that I'm the licensed real estate broker managing the property and I'm taking pictures and evaluating the property. They ask me for my ID.
So now, for the first time, I get to say it........"I am a licensed CHL holder and I am carrying."
I tell them my ID is in the right pocket of my vest and unzip the pocket and take out my license holder and try to hand it to the officer. He tells me to take it out of the holder. I ask him if he wants my DL or CHL or both. He just wants the DL.
He walks off to run my DL and the other one asks to see my CHL. I hand it to him. He looks it over and hands it back.
We start talking real estate and this neighborhood in particular. He says they get a lot of calls around here for suspicious activity and most of it amounts to nothing. While he's talking to me, he gets a call for a burglary-in-progress.
I'm thinking, isn't this special that they're wasting their time with me when they need to get to a break-in. Other officer comes back and hands me my DL and tells me to have a good day.
They never asked where or what I was carrying. Both were polite the whole time. I could tell they thought it was a waste of their time too.
So, first one is out of the way and went well.
Ciao.....rg
I have always just handed over the DL and CHL together. In all cases except the late night stop, the cops immediately handed back my CHL and said/asked nothing about guns. In the case of the late night stop, I just don't remember whether he gave it back right away or a little later, but in either case, he didn't say boo about guns.
