The Insider's Guide To Selling Your Home By Owner- Rocio Fausto I | Page 89

good?” Your callers may be totally interested in looking at your
house today, but in three days’ time, they could very well have
been tempted by another property.
You also shouldn’t be surprised in the least to find that
you’re sitting in your living room speaking with a prospective
buyer who turns out to be sitting in your driveway.
Once you ask if he’d like to come by and look, you are
going to have a hard time explaining that he needs to wait until
another day. I mean, he’s right outside.
As such, keep your house in top-notch shape so that
interested folks can come by at any time without you suffering
from extreme embarrassment or jeopardizing a sale.
In the event that you are welcoming buyer’s agents to show
your home, you will likely want to invest in a lockbox. This will
allow you to leave the premises while the agents are showing your
home, and give them a secure way to enter.

Step 4: Hosting an Open House.
An open house is more or less advertising all over the place
that anyone who wants to have a look at your lovely home may do
so at such and such time on such and such date.
Your most successful open houses are usually going to be
on weekends between 12:00 noon and 5:00pm. In order for your
open house to draw in an adequate number of viewers, you need
to publicize it like mad.
Make sure you put out plenty of high quality signs for
people searching for your home to follow. As guests arrive, give
the grand tour of your home as if it were Buckingham Palace.
Hopefully, you’ll hook a big one!
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