If anyone who knows me well in my market, they know I do many many open houses throughout the year. And if any one who does open house regularly may come across some lookers come to your house and they look and ask question, that is absolutely fine with me. They may not be interested in the house, and maybe they are looking for an agent to help them to buy. Open house is a great way for me to meet leads, I don't mind doing open house at all.
But every now and then, you have some lookers come in and as the conversation goes on, you find out they are working with some other agent already, I am still fine with it. it is an open house, anyone can come, we don't require agents have to come with their clients to look.
What gets me is they know they are working with an agent already, and they will still ask me to show them another house in the neighborhood. I refuse to! I am the agent on duty, not a tour guide.
I will politely tell them to contact their own agent to show the house to them, and that is the right way to do, to me and to their agent.
Many consumers always think we are paid to do everything we touch in real estate. No, we don't. I got paid when I close a sales, no closing no pay, as simple as that. But even if some seasoned buyers already know that, they will still take advantage of an agent while they are doing open house. I used to do that when I was fresh and naive in this business, I quit being a tour guide long time ago.
I am the agent on duty for the open house, not the tour guide of the neighborhood.
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