The main objective of your open house is to inform your neighbors and enlist them in your sales campaign. Over 50% of homes are bought by friends and relatives of people who already live or work in the neighborhood. Hold your Open House on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Check the calendar to make sure your Open House is not competing with sporting or major religious observances. Be sure to have:

Get the name, phone #, address of everyone who attends. Make notes, jot down positive impressions and comments and make sure you can get back to people who show interest. This becomes especially important if you lower your price or change terms later on.

In case someone wants to buy your home.  Real estate sales contracts can be purchased at Office Depot, Staples and other major office supply stores, or downloaded to your computer from our real estate contract package.

Describing your home, listing your price and how to reach you. Every guest should leave with a feature sheet. If you have a web page advertisement with pictures of your home (such as our photo tour) make sure your feature sheet has the web address. Your feature sheet and Internet photo tour lets Buyers "revisit" your house and gives you an edge over other homes they might have visited.

In the real estate section of your local paper. Make a special effort to tell the neighborhood. Neighbors are the best promoters of living in the area, and some of their friends are possible buyers. Put flyers in mail boxes for blocks around. Attach open-house announcement flyers to a hundred neighborhood mail boxes. Stick announcement flyers under windshield wipers of a hundred cars in the supermarket parking lot. Put up an Open House sign in your front yard. Attach balloons to draw special attention to your yard sign. Place directional signs at intersections leading in from the main.