This weekend the Washington Association of Realtors is sponsoring a statewide open house tour. It will be held on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm and again from 2 pm to 4 pm on both days. This will give agents an opportunity to hold 4 listings open and the public will have a large inventory of of homes to preview. Our local board is supplying us with special signs, balloons and print-outs of the tour and there is a full page ad in our local paper.
I think we are all pretty excited about this idea and hope it will bring out some buyers. Open houses are not the norm in our real estate area and there is not always a good turn out. I think it is just not what people are used to here. I always found in So. California the people at open houses either were not serious enough to hire a Realtor or just not ready to buy. But, this is a different time and a different market, so I am going to go now and print more fliers for tomorrow.
I will be in Uptown from 11-1 at 1234 Franklin Street, a wonderful historic Victorian on a R-3 lot with a seperate studio.
From 2-4 I will be in the Bell neighborhood at 4760 Bell Street, a beautiful and spacious NW style home with a one bedroom apt. and a 12,000 + sq. ft. lot.
