Friday, January 20, 2012

Top 10 Tips for Holding Successful Open Houses


By: Kathy Kuyoth Broker / Owner 
1/19/2012
 
With the new year just beginning we have seen a lot of buyer activity in our market. So now would be a great time to schedule an open house.

We have several Realtors who made a good income from holding successful open houses. If you would like to shadow or chat with someone who has had success at   open houses talk to Joan Rauh, Sharon Kowalski or Johnny O. They can share their techniques and strategies.

Here are our top 10 tips to holding successful open houses that we have compiled with input from our RE/MAX Preferred Realtors!

1) Check your open house attitude! Make sure it’s positive and realize you can have a successful open house if you get one buyer or seller to work with.

2) Buy a plant or gas card to use for a drawing at your open house. Use drawing entry cards instead of sign in sheet with a place for name, address, cell phone number and email address. With this information you can notify winner and deliver prize to their home or office and add them to data base to provide them with more home buying information.

3) Do research: check our appointment log on RPAAgents.com and see what price ranges are getting the most showings to determine the best price range for your open houses

4) New listings that are priced right or homes with recent price reductions are usually the best open houses.