I Worked An Open House Today
I will be the first to admit that I did not want to sit at an Open House on Sunday for three hours when I was asked on Friday. Another lender backed out at the last minute, so the broker called me to see if I wanted to do it. The agent that would be there is new to the area and trying to establish himself here.
The list of excuses of why I could not do it immediately came to mind. Sunday is for football, not for sitting at an Open House. This is San Diego and the sun will be out. The ocean will be warm. I have so many other things to do. But, this broker is one of my biggest supporters so I told him I would check my schedule and call back. 
After 30 minutes, I called back and said, "I would love to."
Good thing. Within 10 minutes of opening, we had already had 5 couples come through. By the end of the day, a total of 20 people had walked in, for a Carlsbad home that has already been on the market for 26 days. Pretty good for a beautiful, sunny, football afternoon.
Turns out that the agent didn't want to do the open house either, kind of a necessary evil. The best part was that the agent and I came up with a plan for some joint marketing in the Aviara area of Carlsbad, a plan that we would not have come up with on our own.
So, now we have both added some new clients to our databases and all it cost was a little time on a Sunday afternoon. Not too shabby.
