I was just reading an article in Florida Realtor magazine about a real estate team that got frustrated about the low attendance to their open houses. One agent jokingly said "we'd get better traffic if it were a garage sale!" and they decided they were on to something.
They began having garage sale/open houses - advertising them in the paper as a garage sale and putting "everything must go...including the house!" They consistently are getting new buyer & seller clients from doing this.
Even if the listing is vacant or the seller has no items to sell, you could find items around your home to sell, or ask other agents in your office for any junk they'd like to get rid of, or your neighbors. Then you sell it dirt cheap - the point is to get people there and looking at the home.
I thought this was a very interesting idea...has anyone tried this? I might try it next weekend and get my hubby to man the garage sale part of it while I walk people through the home!
