How do you show a home?

I love the idea of leaving the card with date and time of visit. Thanks for the tip.

Very good procedures.

There is definatly an art to showing homes and while each home is different, it's essential that the buyer's agent be attentive to how the buyers react to a showing. 

Showing homes with real video, with audio makes the process multiply, to create an open house round the clock too.

This is the same thing that I do when showing homes to people here in Fort Wayne.  Good post.  I'll have to check out your radio show.  

Some Realtor's simply don't leave feedback. I send out 3 requests on every showing of my listings. I'll call a couple times after that but i don't like to. i don't like when agents call me for feedback. Owners live for feedback and it frustrates them when they don't get it.

Hi Gary, we depend instead on the electronic lockbox as our method of knowing who showed and getting feedback.

Good morning Gary - I'm definitely going to check out your radio show this morning!

Gary, you've covered all the bases for a successful showing. Documenting everything is a good idea.

That's an excellent point about not entering a home that was left unlocked.  It exposes you to all kinds of liability, especially if you were to go there alone.  This doesn't even begin to address safety.

Hi Gary,

Great post!

I love your idea of writing down the time you enter and leave a home. Could I borrow this idea?

Have a fabulous week!

Good Morning Gary,

Excellent post  You make some very good points.  Here is my two cents, I am trying to make my business paperless. With the use of Smartphone and the Lockbox, why is it still necessary to write down what time you enter and exit the property?  The Listing Agent can get this information from Supra. 

On an owner occupied property I will leave my card and turn off any lights that were turned on -- this lets the owner know I was there. We also use Supra Lockboxes in my market area, so the entry is recorded.  The listing agents know who has been through, when and how many times.

I always wanted to know what where other agents take on the lights, I usually turn them off, but I also try my best to leave a business card so they will know who came by that day. I do like the idea of the time on the cards this is a good idea and tool to use to keep sellers informed, and involved.

When I was showing houses I adopted a showing card. It identified me, when I showed the home, and that I would contact their agent so and so if there was any feedback the buyers might have that could be useful to their agent in the marketing of the home. 

I would then leave a voice mail for the agent that I showed the property and the results. The listing agent could then call the sellers and say agent brian and his buyers felt the home was so overpriced that a reasonable offer would probably be rejected since they appeared not to be serious sellers at that price, or their loving dog killer tried to have one of them for lunch and agent brian was notifying the agents in his office to avoid killer's house, and  he thought it might be wise if the sellers put an attorney on retainer. I had a few sellers call me about my feedback after the listing agent called them and I gave it to them straight, and the listing agent loved me paving the way for a correction of some sort. Of course I was on the sellers **** list.