Open day!! how many viewings...

bazzyb

littlelost wrote: »

we are having an open day on Saturday.

littlelost wrote: »

The EA has just text me to say the open day is fully booked!!!

I'm really confused about the set-up, an 'open day' means just that - people rock up if/when they want to. The Zoopla listing implies that you need an appointment, so there is nothing 'open' about it at all, and if the agent is saying it's fully booked then this implies the same thing. How is this any different from general appointments to view?

littlelost

I did wonder that too as I always thought an open day was just were you could turn up however since actually house searching I have realised that in my area that is not the case and open day just really means that all viewings are conducted on the one day within a scheduled time. It seems a bit silly calling it an open day however that is how they all seem to be marketed.

rosie383

Hope it goes well tomorrow littlelost.

littlelost

Thank-you...I am a tad stressed right now though!! I thought that I would wait until the kids were in bed until hovering the stairs and sprinkled on some of the vanish freshener powder (its supposed to make your carpet smell nice) I followed the instructions, brushed it in and begun hovering it up only for the hoover to die on me with 4 steps to go!!!


My Husband thinks that I may have just overheated it and it will come back on in a bit so fingers crossed....


We are dropping the kids of at my mums an hour before the open day so we can have a quick tidy up without them around and then its all systems go at 11 o'clock.....


I really hope we get some good offers tomorrow....

phoebe1989seb

Hope the open day goes well tomorrow littlelost

Hope the Hoover came back to life ok, too....reminded me of when we were selling a house a few years back and ours gave up on the morning I had a viewing booked whilst I was hoovering the last room. I ended up on hands and knees with a clothes brush/lint roller thingy desperately trying to get cat fluff off the rug before the agent turned up to do the viewing

Fingers crossed you get lots of offers!

GaleSF63

Maybe it's too late now but when I had stairs and cats I used to use damp kitchen paper - it actually seemed to be more efficient than the vacuum cleaner.

Good luck with the viewings.

rosie383

The day after ours went on the market and had three viewing booked, my little one woke up with a really, really nasty vomiting and diarrhoea bug! It was awful. Literally just before the first viewer came I had about four lots of bedclothes, duvet, pillows, towels etc bundled up in black plastic bags and chucked in the shed! The house absolutely stank, so I had no choice but to use one of those Oust type deodorising air fresheners. They are great. I don't think I have ever been as stressed before someone came to my home, ever!
I hope you do get an offer that you are happy with today Littlelost, but if you don't, there will be one along soon I'm sure. You have a lovely home.

Joanthebone

Hope all goes well today, I will look in later! The house is nicely presented and offers options to the buyers. If it were mine I would turn beds 2 and 3 into one with an en-suite over the existing bathroom. Lots of buyers like to do their own thing with a property


A tip for easily removing cat hair from carpets and furniture if the vac won't get it off ... clean trainers and 'shuffle' sideways across the carpet like you are wiping your feet on a doormat and the cat hair comes off in rolls.. or wipe over sofas etc. with rubber gloves on, really does the trick.

Mickygg

I agree with others. It's not an open day atall!! It's an appointment like any other EA and any other day of the week.
EAs do this to save their time.
Open day is....turn up if you want to between set times.
Nice home. Good luck with your 'open day' lol.

MoaningMyrtle

We had the neighbours dog come and do a !!!! in the middle of the drive just before our open day.

This was for two hours and people had to ring before to express an interest. It was also a 'launch day'. 26 people viewed. On the Monday there were offers from four parties, this then went to a bidding war between two people, which resulted in a final and best by 1700hours (all on the Monday after the open day) .

Because of this our sale price achieved was well over the guide price. The final price we accepted was £50,000 over our lowest valuation the previous month!

This is in a desirable village.