Having just sold our house, I have mixed feelings about the value of an open house. We lived in NJ had numerous open houses and, contrary to the other poster from NJ, had fairly strong turnouts for them (one of them resulted in 23 visits, the most our agent had ever had). Indeed many of the visitors were either just "kicking the tires", scoping out the current or potential competition, or just killing time on a Sunday afternoon. However, we did have a few potentially strong buyers who were seriously interested in our house. It turns out, however, we ended up selling our house to someone who did not come to an open house.
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