How to interest homebuyers and prepare for an open house
Take the opportunity to host an open house. Here are some tips about how to host an open house that can help sell your home:
- Host a Facebook Live during the open house. This allows you to reshare the live stream later with potential buyers who haven’t seen the home yet.
- Using a service like Spacio.com you can capture homebuyers information when they come to visit your home. Spacio costs $25 a month. Alternatively, you can use Google Sheets which is free, just set up a new spreadsheet in Google Sheets with columns for the name, email address and homebuyer. It is important to follow up after the open house to continue the conversation and get feedback. Once your open house is finished remember to follow up with each person using Gmail with Streak pipelines.
- Invite your neighbours days before by sending them a private note or simply door knock and give them a heads up notice about the open house. Maybe they have friends or family who want to move into the community and didn’t know your home was for sale.
- Create a welcome sign. Welcome signs make people feel at ease.
- Buy a Bootie machine if you want guests to take their shoes off. That way people do not have to take their shoes off and you avoid any awkward issue about it. You can find one on Amazon for $90.
- Host open houses on weekends between 9 am to 11 am. Morning open houses allow buyers to think clearly. Once buyers have had lunch they are less likely to focus the home and its qualities.
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