Locating A Client on Facebook You Are Already Working With/ Barely Know...Is This Weird?

Asking permission would be a great start.  Just tell them what the advantage of that would be.  Yes, I know they have to okay the relationship in Facebook's format anyway.  But warning them its coming by mentioning it first would get you the pluses without the minuse -- I'll bet nearly every time.

Maybe rather than clicking "add as friend" you could send them a private message saying, "Good to see you're on Facebook too!  I check this pretty often, so you can always get ahold of me this way" and they could add you. 

I think about doing the same thing for people who don't give much information at an open house too, but I think that may be pushing it.

Josh, I agree with Jim and Shana...give them a heads up that you are also on Facebook and see what their reaction is. My guess is that if you leave an open invitation to have them add you, it avoids the awkward situation. Just compare it to being a restaurant owner on facebook...if you owned a restaurant, you could tell your customers that they can find you on facebook for specials, but you would never look them up by their credit card receipt and add them yourself! ;)

Josh, I must say that I agree with everyone else.  I would ask permission.  IN fact many times when I meet people for the first time and I feel like I have established enough rapport I will often ask for theri email address.  If they give it to me I consider that permission to send them an email.  The Facebook thing does smack a little of stalking.

Josh - Ditto to everything everyone else has said.  I would let them know that you have a facebook account that they could use to keep in touch with you.

One of these days I have to actually complete my facebook account thingee.

Definitely agree - best to ask.  And make sure you don't have any other friends who post on your account who may embarrass you in some way or make you look bad in front of clients.  ;-)   They may get to know you better than you want them to!  LOL

I do have some of my current/past clients as friends on my Facebook page, but for new clients, I invite them to check out our company Facebook page where we post a lot of community event info as well as real estate specific stuff.  That seems very comfortable for people, and from there if they want to add me personally as a friend they can take the lead to do that...