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Take the free cookies and run.

Nobody has ever bought a house at an open house. Whys ellers have them is beyond me. Open houses are for the benefit of the realtor, not the seller.

HousingWatcher says

Open houses are for the benefit of the realtor, not the seller.

I agree. The main thing I've ever been asked by a used house salesman at an open house is "are you already represented?" I usually put a fake name/email address, because otherwise the used house salesman will put me on his/her email list.

used house salesman - puts it in perfect perspective. 2 thumbs up.

Thanks Controllio

Well, it's Saturday, and it's raining here.

Karma.

HousingWatcher says

Nobody has ever bought a house at an open house. Whys ellers have them is beyond me. Open houses are for the benefit of the realtor, not the seller.

Yup. In my re license class, our instructor said exactly that. "Do it to build your network. If you find a buyer, then great, that increases your chance of doubling the commission on the sale."

They are self-serving parasites on a mission to rob anyone they can get their paws on.

;)

Every weekend is open house weekend. While your slowly figuring out that realtor of yours is really just a commission collector, you can ask them for a open house, and I think they'll do it for you. About all they really do is put up a couple of signs for a couple of hours, maybe throw a little advertisement in the local shopper.

Nationwide Open House, San Antonio style. All the Realtors had printouts of their other listings just in case you didn't like the open house.

thunderlips11 says

Take the free cookies and run.

None of the open houses I attended had cookies! :-(