Make Sure Your Open House Is a Smashing Success

if you are selling your house "for sale by owner", I propose to combine meetings with potential customers with an open house. Hold an open house brief - no more than two hours, 1 to 3 hours or 2 up to 4 hours. Would you like to create a crowd!

Be sure to place your classified ads at the beginning of the week for your open house! Set up ads everywhere you are currently doing your FSBO marketing. Here are some great places to advertise open houses:

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- Your FSBO listing service
- Your FSBO MLS listing
- Local newspaper

You want to make easy to find homes. Put up a special open house sign or open house to add a rider on their "for sale" sign. Put up directional signs or bandit signs around your neighborhood, especially in the nearest busy intersections. Be sure to take them off after the open house, of course.

Pass flyers to your neighbors, inviting them to their open house and offers $ 500 referral fee. Neighbors love to visit this and might know someone perfect for your house!

Buy a bunch of helium balloons to put in your yard to an open house day.

If your house has a special unique features that people might miss, the little card to draw attention. For example, "open me" card on the kitchen cabinet draws attention to the unique feature inside.

did sign the sheet on the clipboard and a pen ready. Get all the e-mail tracking.

Bake some cookies to the house smell wonderful. Provide them with bottled water (excluding beverages that stain ).

Setting up an area where customers can see and pick up information that is prepared, including:

- property information Flyers. Include lots of photos so that people can clearly remember his house. - Loan Program Flyers. Have a mortgage broker to give you promotional material for an appropriate loan programs. Better yet, see if he will attend the open house. This is a great benefit it can provide to their customers and themselves. - "Sell Scrapbook". Put copies of all warranties, manuals, receipts for recent work, inspection reports, a recent evaluation, a copy of the new home warranty that will be supplying, and any similar material in a 3-ring binder. It makes you look impressive, organized, and makes your house seem well cared for. Would not you rather buy a used car from someone to keep a detailed log service? The same is true with houses!

tips for your appointments and open houses

It goes without saying that you have already repaired, decluttered, depersonalized, cleaned, and set his house to make it ready to sell.

smoking. This means that you and your visitors!

Pets: Does your pet go elsewhere for the afternoon. Hide water bowls, beds, boxes, toys, kitty litter boxes and rails. Some people are so allergic to pets to see evidence of them will put them right from your home.

do not stink: Get a dehumidifier if your basement is damp. If your house does not smell as fresh as you might want to consider getting a good air purifier.

Spray unscented "out" in any area that smells questionable. Do not use anything that has a strong odor because some people are allergic to chemicals in the room fresheners, too.

No TV: turn it off. If there is a big game this weekend, have an open house.

Caution with Children: If your kids are there, they should be on their best behavior. Playing (silently) in the yard, reading in bed or doing homework will be perfect.

take security precautions: This will be useful to have at least one other person there. Hide your valuables. Turn off your computer. Hide your laptop. Consider what would be a disaster if someone snuck up to her.

Never be discouraged if you have the light go out on the open house. I once had an open house and only a few show up. But I quickly got over my disappointment when they bought a house!