If so, why on Sunday?

Why not on Saturday... or another day of the week??

And, what about Sunday Real Estate Listings in the paper? Are those still working for you?

Here's a link to a prior thread you started on this same subject back in January:

Why are Open Houses held on Sunday...?

Maybe the answers there still have some applicability to Today's Question ?

My reply is still valid. I still do them to sit down read a book, watch some TV or get quite time away from the wife and kids.

Well I am a newer agent so yes, they work for me as far as getting my name out there and meeting new people. Any chance I get to talk to someone new and hand out my contact information is time well spent, and I have gotten some good buyers from doing them....not on the home they came to see at the open house, but that doesn't matter to me.

We don't do as well on Sundays here as we do on Saturday. On Sundays many of the weekenders are heading back - being a weekend destination / vacation market tends to make many Sundays quiet for Open Houses though I do find myself taking buyers out on occasion...

We stopped advertising our open houses in the newspapers. wayyyyy too expensive for little, if any return.

Our open houses are still on Sunday, but most advertising is now online.

Open houses are still good for generating leads for the agent, though they almost never benefit the homeowner (sell the house).

There is a reason people choose to tour houses. In a few of the cases, that reason is that they are thinking of putting their house on the market or that they are just starting to consider buying a house. Those people are potential customers for the agent hosting the open house.

In the vast majority of cases, however, the "lookers" are already represented by an agent or they are simply lookers.

Your question reminded me of a real estate sales guru who traveled around the country giving seminars on "How to quit working on Sundays forever".

She finally showed up in the S.F. Bay Area, and several of my agents wanted to go. So we went, and as she proudly announced that she had never worked a single Sunday in her entire career, I asked loudly where was this, she ignored the question three times, and finally I walked up front and asked her why she wouldn't answer the question.

She finally said the Salt Lake City Area, and I asked her to tell the audience what businesses were open in the area on Sunday, and how many brokers hold open houses on Sunday there on average. She said she didn't know.

Well in those years, nothing was open, and no business was transacted on Sunday, it just wasn't done, I was born there and knew that was the way it was. So I gave my fellow agents the answer and watched as everyone started to filter out. Whoops!!, never did find out if she really had anything to suggest.

When i am new in this market same problem i suffer this problem.
Now its possible at sunday and also saturday.

I will only do one if there is a pond out behind the house to fish in. Leave a note on the door, "Agent Gone Fishing" BigC

It seems that not nearly as many agents conduct open houses as they used to in my area.

Still chuckling about the Salt Lake City comment. That is awesome!

As you have heard, open houses are good for just about anything BUT selling the home. Even funnier (to me at least) was a book I just browsed through at a major bookstore chain, "101 Places to Have Sex Before You Die." Yep... Open House.

I've been doing open houses pretty much every weekend since I started in late March. I've been doing them strickly on Sundays, with the exception of 2 Saturdays I did because I wasn't available on Sunday.

The open houses have been pretty uneventful for me, for the most part, 1 maybe 2 guests, but it's been a great chance to catch up on emails and Twittering. Until last weekend...

Last weekend I had 6 guests, one of which was a neighbor who wanted to list her house. I looked at her house a few days later and will be taking the listing when she gets back from vacation next week. And this past weekend I did one of my rare Saturday open houses. Waterfront home, pouring rain all day, had 5 guests, last guest wants to bring her husband back for a second look. She's supposed to be giving me a call today to schedule the second look-see. If she does buy the house, I'll be listing her house for her, too.

If all things go well, 3 months of open houses will yield me 2 listings and a buy on the house I sat. Not too shabby.

We advertise our open houses on our brokers website, and have a full page ad every Saturday in the local newspaper that our broker pays for. I also advertise my open houses on my Facebook, Twitter, personal website, and blog, which costs me nothing. One of the agents that I sit open houses for quite often also advertises them on Realtor.com as part of the upgraded package she pays for. But what do people tell me brings them to the open houses? My directional signs. I have 10 signs and try to use all of them every time I sit one. Even if the house is 2 blocks in from the major thoroughfare, I put signs throughout the neighborhood to catch the locals who try to avoid the traffic on Rt 9.

I'm working on a listing in a retirement community, the house is an older, smaller model but has been gutted and upgraded. It's priced on the high side for that model in typical condition, but comparable to the few of that same model with similar upgrades. Anyone searching for that model will probably pass it by because of the price, which is what the homeowner saw with the last 3 brokers who had the listing. No one ever did an open house. I think the only way it's going to get sold is to push the open houses, get the people to come in, see the upgrades and realize the value, and the only way to do that is with open houses. I'm also thinking about doing them from 9-1 on Saturdays instead of our usual 12-4 on Sundays because the community is a buzz with activity earlier in the day on Saturdays and the house is located near the town center.

Basically, test the waters and see what works for you. But keep in mind the community that you are sitting in.

I love Open houses. I only sell a property that I am doing an open house on 1% or less of the time but I pick up a ton of buyers that I can start working with and I keep the vendors happy. It's a win-win situation.

One of the old time brokers in silicon valley always said open houses were your penance for taking an overpriced listing and I basically agree with him.

But if you are going to do one I suggest you don't just satisfy the noisy seller but hold open one in the price range that is the hottest in your area at the moment.

So, did you actually get either of the listings or the sale?