open houses: My Open House Rant! - 04/12/08 09:12 PM
Yes I had a bit of a rant on my radio show today - this time about Open Houses. You see we all know (Realtors tha is) that less than 1% of all buyers find their homes through an open house. And so the question has always been, "why hold one?"
The … (14 comments)

open houses: Realtors not up to the challenge! - 12/10/07 09:04 AM
So I did my radio show yesterday and frankly based on what has happened in these pages, I did a section on Open Houses.
I was pretty strong about it too.
"I want to talk about open houses and the fact that they don't work," I started.
Pretty tough huh? I went on: … (51 comments)

open houses: Are agents responsible for the state of their own markets? - 12/07/07 02:25 PM
I have been thinking a lot recently about why some agents buy and sell houses successfully and while others in exactly the same market do not.I will be blogging later today on another reason this might be true, but you see I came across something today In Realtor magazine that quite … (4 comments)

open houses: And YET another reason NOT to hold an Open House - 12/04/07 03:48 PM
With just a measly one per cent of homes selling due to Open House activity, it is almost unbelievable to me that Realtors still hold them and indeed still bow to pressure from sellers to hold them - as one person on this forum has said "to keep the peace".I have … (43 comments)

open houses: Closing the door on Open Houses? - 10/13/07 06:28 PM
OK - before we get into this, I think it is only fair that I point out that the home I live in was bought because of an Open House.
It had been a particularly frustrating day of house hunting for myself and my wife. It was a Sunday and we had … (15 comments)

 
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