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WHO Stole my open house sign???

Calling all agents! Do you have this happen too?

Just after a hard days work, you go around and pick up the dreaded open house signs, and to no avail can't find one.

Then you question yourself, Did I really have that many with me today? Did I put one here? Drive back and forth looking and looking and don't find it. It's especially frustrating for me when it's raining. At least I'm on the way home and the mascara smears don't matter any more. :-)

Finally, you give up and realize that IT'S GONE!

I just want to know how many other realtors have experienced this? What do you do other than purchase more?

Does anyone have any good stories to tell?

Let me know,

Michelle

Posted by Michelle Haney on 03/31/2008 10:28 PM

Comments (8)

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8 Comments on WHO Stole my open house sign???

That's just plain aggravating. Probably some kids with nothing better to do. But those darn things cost us money! And it's aggravating!

03/31/2008 10:37 PM

by Jim Albano (Prudential Damiano Realty)

Jim,

I agree. But I don't think it's just kids. I had a recent client tell me that they know of adults that would steal them just so they could modify them and put up FSBO, or Yard Sale signs.

Michelle

03/31/2008 10:43 PM

by Michelle Haney (Keller Williams Realty)

Sometimes adults steal them if you are in competion with them, here the city takes them!

03/31/2008 10:44 PM

by Jeannette Neerpat, e-Pro Coral Springs/Parkland Real Estate (London Realty Corp)

I have never lost an open house sign but I have had my for sale signs stolen or tagged

03/31/2008 10:58 PM

by Lazarus Realty

I have lost two to the city. They have people on the weekends who gather up signs (No matter where the house is, you are allowed one sign off-site, even though it is 3 or 4 turns inside a development. Somehow they got "misplaced" or never returned by the people who gather them) I have turned to putting a flyer box with a map on it for "complicated" directions to homes.

I have also lost one for no reason...probably stolen.

I have a listing in a part of town that I swear I have to go by and fix at least once every two weeks. I went there yesterday and someone had purposely bent the sign. It was one of those steel square ones for an 18x24 and two riders!!! I couldn't even bend it back! They must have driven on the curb and rammed it with a car!

03/31/2008 11:01 PM

by Mark Hawley (Tarbell Realtors)

WOW. That's just crazy. We are able to have open house signs up in most areas on a temporary basis. Some areas have a no tolerance policy.

The county burns off the levee's sometimes just before the fire season starts and there have been some crispy signs brought back into our office. So much for directionals!

03/31/2008 11:09 PM

by Michelle Haney (Keller Williams Realty)

I do believe a lot of times it's neighbors who may think they're TACKY. They're not thinking ahead, however. When it's their turn to sell their home it will be a different story, huh??

I'd like to throw a question out - how are OPEN HOUSES working for you? What's your success rate on actually selling the home you're sitting in?

04/05/2008 07:41 AM

by Jacki & Jerry Shafer, The Shafer Real Estate Team (The Shafer Real Estate Team, Keller Williams Louisville East)

Around here the college students take them to decorate their dorm rooms and apartments. My Partner tells me that they (and he!) did the same thing in Texas 35 years ago. I have noticed that open houses at the beginning of the college semesters have more missing signs than at other times. Hmmmmmmmmmm. What are they teaching college students?

09/24/2008 02:00 AM

by Jim Frimmer, San Diego Realtor (Century 21 Award)

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