We all know that the first step in selling our home is to advertise. You can accomplish that task by setting up “for sale” signs posting flyers everywhere you can. You can also take advantage of a flat fee MLS listing service to get the word out to the realtors and everyone who is in the market to purchase a home that yours is available. But what is your next step? After your home is officially being advertised as for sale, do you just sit back and wait for someone to give you money?

Unfortunately the answer is no, you now need to get your home into tip-top shape and hold an open house. By holding a regular series of open house events you can bring traffic into your home, the more traffic the greater the possibility of someone purchasing your home. Many people are looking for homes to buy and are not using a buyers agent and these people will specially visit open house events instead of trying to schedule a private showing.  

Next time, we will specially look at the steps you should take in order to host a successful open house but for right now you need to pick a date for your showing and start cleaning. People are coming to your home for the purpose of seeing the house and not your stuff, put everything you can away and clean everything your will be leaving out. Â