In Saudi they cut off the arms of a thief but this is a Porsche, I hope you bury them.

 

Your realtor has a care of duty, but not unlimited liability. If the key to an adjacent car is left accessible in the house, you share some responsibility. The realtor must take care to lock all doors when the open house is over. However, the mechanical coupling to the big garage door, may not be considered a conventional lock. The boilerplate listing agreement the seller signs with the real estate agency is pretty one-sided and shifts liability away from the agent.

Your car was beautiful. Hopefully the car’s theft insurance will pay out enough for a replacement.

 

Open houses (to the public) are a waste of time and rarely procure a sale. This was just an open invitation for a professional thief to case your home. I am very sorry for your ordeal.

 

I apply that same rationale to selling a car. I never show it at home; always in the local grocery store parking lot in broad daylight.

I am also sorry to hear such a tragic story. I hope it has a happy ending.

 

At this point, after +24 hours, you really don't want the car back. Time to start shopping for a new car, and make lemonade from life's lemons.

 

Scumbag is in bed with another scumbag who works at a dealer. They get a key coded and cut.

For those here who have roll up garage doors, take a peak on youtube on how they are easily defeated and how to secure them. A simple ziptie can do wonders. When I had a roll up garage, I would use two quality paddle locks in the tracks when I was out of town.....and the emergency release was zip tied.

 

GL, OP....keep us in the loop. This is terrible!

 

sorry to hear the news - i'll have my eyes out over here in seattle

 

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It really is a heartbreak. The police are pretty sure it's been chopped and parted already, the parts are triple the car value.

I should have removed the car from the open house and after. It would have been easy to park it at a friends until the house sold. I hope my foolish loss is a lesson for everyone else.

 

24 hours and no news on the car. That most likely means it wasn't a joy ride.

The thieves were pros, not neighborhood burglars.

 

I thought Redmond area is very nice high end area.

Sorry to hear that man.

 

Nice areas is where thieves are now searching for their prey.

Criminals know the consequences of their crimes. So if the the punishment is the same for stealing a 2001 Honda from a "low end" neighborhood, then why not go after something more profitable in a "very nice high end area".

 

...because on the way out of my "nice, high-end" garage, you'll be leaving a bit heavier, once you add in the weight of the slugs.

 

So very sorry to read of your misfortune, Ervin; you do us all a service in sharing your story. I am taking the warning you give to heart.

We have a key rack in our laundry/mud room, just off the garage. The keys to our C4S are hung on that rack, and I've looked at it a few times and felt a stirring in the more reptilian part of my brain. No open house for us, but we are having some landscaping work done around the place.

It's an easy matter to take the Porsche keys off the rack and drop them into the pistol safe, and that's just what I'm going to do.

Appreciate the heads up. Really hope you're made whole after this ordeal is over. Good luck.

 

+1 as above. Thanks for sharing, and giving us something to think about. (While very sorry for your loss!)

One other warning to take away is the ease by which a closed garage door can be opened once the opener shuttle is disconnected. I realize that in the Ervin's case the thieves may of just released it from inside the garage.

But consider zip-toeing the shuttle release so that it can't be yanked with a hook from outside and the door then just lifted by hand.