At OpenHouseDog.com we feel that having Open Houses are both beneficial for not only home buyers but also home sellers! Real Estate Agents do also benefit in their own ways by having them. Not only do home buyers search the internet first for homes but they also like to drive the neighborhoods to feel them out, before they move into them. If your not doing that as a buyer, it might be a good idea too! Here at OpenHouseDog.com we provide you with innovative software that not only displays hundreds of Open Houses and Homes for Sale Nationwide, but we go a step farther and list the Real Estate Agents that specialize in those areas too.

Buyers make it easy on yourself by utilizing our Free Mapping Software, where you can create your own account, check homes that you want to look at and print out the driving routes for these open houses.  We hope this helps and Happy Home Hunting from all of us here!

Sellers encourage you agents to hold Open Houses, which is a great way to showcase your home to potential buyers and other real estate agents.

Real Estate Agents be Creative in holding your Open Houses for your clients. Have them in the later parts of the day, holidays even, Open Houses are not only a great networking tool but also create business for you and a possible sale of your listing!

Open House Dos and Don’ts

Open houses have been time tested and proven to be one of the absolutely best ways to effectively market and sell homes. If you are attempting to sell your home by yourself without the assistance of a professional real estate agent then you need to keep a few essential open house dos and don’ts in mind to really make your open house successful.

Your list of open house dos and don’ts should include the following:

Dos

• Do create as much interest as possible before your open house and make sure you are completely prepared.
• Do try and make your open house visitors as comfortable as possible; think about serving snacks and refreshments.
• Do make sure you have printed flyers for potential buyers to take with them.
• Do make sure you have a guest log to record everyone who comes into your home.
• Do have available as much detailed information as possible, you should be able to get information on area schools, demographics, business and more online for free that you can print out.
• Do let your neighbors know about your open house plans, hopefully they will cooperate and not be throwing wild drunken parties at the same time.

Don’ts

• Don’t be pushy and try to hard sell visitors, you may come across as being too desperate.
• Don’t make any on the spot commitments or sign agreements without taking the time to discuss and think it over.
• Don’t leave any valuables laying around your home.
• Don’t leave pets loose, however cute you may find them they may put off otherwise interested buyers.
• Don’t make any guarantees or warranties you are unsure of.
• Don’t give out to many personal details to strangers or details of your routine, as open houses can be opportunities for burglars to case homes.

For anyone especially real estate agents managing their time is very important. Well our time management tip of the day would have to be Tweetdeck.com, a social media management application that helps you manage your social media accounts, free. So if your using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Myspace all you have to do is download the tweetdeck software and it will allow you to view updates, send updates, and send direct messages all at one time, to all networks. What a great time saving solution for all, especially real estate agents networking in multiple online medias.

As a wonderful start to the new year our developers have made it easier for you to search for open houses and homes for sale nationwide, by adding a quick search tool. Now you can search easily by city, state, property status, property type, by price, bedrooms, bathrooms, and even by home square footage.

Most open Houses are uploaded on Thursdays and Fridays by real estate agents. So if you want the freedom of viewing homes on your own time, visit us at www.openhousedog.com to get started!