Excellent Article posted in the San Fransisco Chronicle about the need to be careful when showing homes in the high end market: They seemed like just the sort that most high-end agents would thrill to see crossing the threshold of their open homes. Arriving in a Jaguar and dressed to the nines, the two fashionable women in their 30s enthusiastically posed all the questions that serious buyers are wont to pose. But their interest had nothing to do with the real estate available for sale. Instead, the sophisticates reportedly had set their sights on the personal property available for looting: wedding rings, designer luggage, expensive Champagne. When Jessica Joyner and Jennifer Jones were finally arrested in New York last month, the women had allegedly accumulated an impressive haul from their tours of luxury Manhattan homes: $70,000 worth of valuables including a Tiffany clock, diamond jewelry, Veuve Clicquot Champagne, Louis Vuitton luggage and a Bang & Olufsen telephone.

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