Because not all real estate agents host open houses in the same manner, you can't always be certain who will answer the door. Could be the listing agent, a neighbor, a buyer's agent or even the seller.
Does it matter for you?
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Because not all real estate agents host open houses in the same manner, you can't always be certain who will answer the door. Could be the listing agent, a neighbor, a buyer's agent or even the seller.
Does it matter for you?
It should matter. What if it's someone casing the house out to rob it later that night?
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Rule #1: An open house is not a public restroom. Don't take a dump in the toilet. You'll have plenty of time to test the plumbing after the contract is signed.
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Originally Posted by WNYresident
They actually recommend letting the local police know you are having one, although I dont know a lot of agents that do this...
Some require every person to sign in and show a photo id, if you require it for one person - by law you have to require it for everyone that enters end of story.
NOW - onto the original question...........
Who will answer the door? Any agent who doesn't have a licensed agent covering their open house for them isn't a very good agent imho. What is up now with listing agents having sellers doing open houses anyway???? That is ridiculous. If the agent can't do their own open house or have another licensed agent doing it for them, they should be fired.
besides, rarely do open houses sell homes anyway - over 80% of buyers locate the home they buy on the internet. Open houses will "sometimes" help, but if an agent is doing their job with marketing, it's just an open invitation for the nosy neighbors to take a look at "suzies' house..............
Nosy neighboords, by the way, is a part of a good marketing plan and should be included in it. Neighboors are people and it's natural for the people to talk. The best and low cost advertising is a word of mouth. Everyone knows that.
The good neighboors who care about neighborhoods must be aware about the latest news in their community. It's good to have concerned neighboors.
Many houses don't the open house marketing campaign because they are priced right at the right time. They sell fast.
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The good neighboors who care about neighborhoods must be aware about the latest news in their community.
It's good to have concerned neighboors.
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The good neighbors one would hope would be intelligent enough to realize the house is for sale by the for sale sign on the front lawn, and understand about the "news" in the community of the home being for sale.
neighbors that go to an open house, are not concerned with anything other than what they can buy or ask for when their neighbor moves
Personally, I don't like open houses. We just sold a new home back in May and didn't have an open house. Pictures of the home were on line. Parties that we interested, called our realtor to make an appointment. The house did sell.
There you go!! Congrats on your sale............
Whenever my wife "holds" an open house , I go with her for safety's sake..........or whenever she just shows a house to strangers , I again go with her because of the safety factor............But even she says that very few homes sell via open houses..........esp. with the 'net being so prevalent now............
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even so, its always nice to see the inside of other peoples houses... especially a neighbor.
Hey for all you know there could be a gadget in the kitchen that you cant live with out.
Hopefully, Colleen and Zanna bring protection. Remember these two incidents in 1988 and 1992.Originally posted by dgrzeb:
Whenever my wife "holds" an open house , I go with her for safety's sake..........or whenever she just shows a house to strangers , I again go with her because of the safety factor............But even she says that very few homes sell via open houses..........esp. with the 'net being so prevalent now............
In 1988, Wolfer, then 45, operated the Wolfer Real Estate Agency in Arcade, New York, a town of 5,000 located 40 miles south of Buffalo. Answering a phone inquiry, Wolfer drove out alone to show property to find her prospective client sitting in front when she arrived.
As they joined the property owner inside the home, the prospect, who was carrying a briefcase, asked to use the bathroom.
“When he came out, he was wearing gloves and brandishing a handgun,” Wolfer says. “He ordered us to put our hands over our heads.”
The man then tied and gagged the pair, and instructed Wolfer to sit on the floor in an adjacent bedroom.
He then took the homeowner out to the barn and shot him in the head.
Wolfer, meanwhile, managed to get a foot free and crawl to a phone in the living room and dial 911. She crawled back to the bedroom just before the man suddenly reappeared.
“He shot me twice in the face and once in the neck and left me for dead,” she says.
Bleeding from severe head wounds, Wolfer managed to crawl to the telephone again but collapsed before she completed dialing. Fortunately, police were already responding.
Incredibly, six months later, at the Erie County areawide fair, Wolfer recognized her assailant. After a two-week investigation, which included a search of the suspect’s telephone records, police arrested one of their own: E. Beauford Cutner, a part-time mounted deputy sheriff. Cutner was convicted of attempted murder and is now in prison.There are still nut cases out there. So be careful.On June 21, 1992, Ramona Bantale, then 33, agreed to meet a man at a vacant house in a remote area near her home.
“Once inside, he talked about his family and about building a log house,” Bantale says today. “We’d been in the house about 30 minutes when I suggested we go outside to inspect a moisture problem.”
As Bantale turned to walk out ahead of the man, he struck her from behind, knocking her to the floor. He then pounced on her, pulling out a knife.
“I thought he was going to kill me,” she says. “He tied my hands and forced me to accompany him to an upstairs bedroom, where he tied my hands to the bed, spread-eagle-removed the lower half of my clothes, and raped and sodomized me at knife point.
“I wanted to die.”
The man stepped outside briefly to move his and Bantale’s cars, parking hers inside the garage, then returned.
“He untied me from the bed and retied my hands behind me, led me to the top of the stairs and gave me a push,” Bantale says. “I rolled down the stairs and landed on the concrete floor below.”
The man then took Bantale outside, stuffed her into the trunk of his car, and drove off.
“I was hurting and trembling with fear, knowing I was going to die,” Bantale says. “But I thought if I could just get the trunk open, I could possibly save myself. I took a small Bic lighter from my blazer pocket and found and an “S” hook amid the debris, and I began trying to pry the trunk open.
“It took me a long time, and I nearly gave up several times, thinking I would never get it open. But I kept trying. Suddenly, it popped open. I quickly decided if I was going to die, I would die my way, not his.”
Freeing her hands, Bantale jumped out of the car when it slowed for a light.
“I recognized where I was and ran toward a nearby trailer park,” she says. “When I looked back, I suddenly realized he was chasing me. But then, because of traffic, I guess, he turned back, slammed the trunk down and drove off.”
Bantale made her way to a trailer, where she called some friends who drove her to the police station and then to a hospital.
“It’s a small town, and I didn’t want anyone to know I’d been raped,” she says. “But the police told me that the hospital could secure evidence from me that would convict the guy when they caught him. So, I finally agreed to go.”
Bantale’s assailant, David A. Graczyk, a former state corrections officer and volunteer firefighter, was arrested within three days and charged with eight counts of rape, sodomy, kidnapping and other related charges.
Graczyk pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 57 to 112 years in prison because of the brutality of his crime. Bantale was so physically and emotionally scarred she continues to receive professional counseling a year after the crime.
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I won't go into details, b/c this is a public forum, but once I did get a scary feeling from a client that I barely knew. I trusted my own instincts and moved on quickly. Could I have been wrong? certainly. But no amount of money is worth taking the chance. Most of my clients are personal referrals or friends of friends. Your point is very well taken and appropriate.
The last open house i had i placed undercover Voice activated tape recorders in different rooms. What a riot,some people are real putzes. Got some good info like lets offer him $. Then I worked a plan becuase i was prepared.
True story. I was doing yardwork on a beautiful Spring day 2 years back and noticed a light on in my upstairs guest bedroom. I was confused, so I went into my house and saw a sign in sheet on my coffee table. I was again, confused. I called out "hello" and a very cheerful woman came down MY stairs and said, "oh, you are a bit early, but come on in. I am just setting up." (She must have entered when I was getting a trowel out of the garage). I told her that I was not early and that this was, in fact, my house and that, in fact, it was NOT FOR SALE!
She then realized that she was supposed to be next door (you'd think the big For Sale sign on their yard might be a clue). She was incredibly apologetic and I was rather calm about the whole thing and later that evening I found a bouquet of flowers and an apology note on my front steps.
Anyway, she was an unlicensed (and somewhat clueless) friend of a very busy agent in the North Buffalo area.
this is a very interesting idea................ you're always thinking....
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