Working document
The Open House Lead Capture Checklist
Everything a solo host has to do to leave a Sunday open house with named visitors, a fed seller, and follow up already moving.
Free resources
Resources for Agents Who Host Their Own Open Houses
Practical tools for the agent who sets the signs, works the door, and owes the seller a report by Sunday night.
Everything here was written for one working situation: a solo agent or two person team hosting weekend opens without a marketing coordinator, an assistant, or a brokerage account manager standing behind them. The calculators use numbers you can pull off your own weekend, and the checklist is built to be printed and kept in the sign bin.
Start with whichever question is bothering you. If a seller has asked whether the open house was worth it, run the cost per lead numbers. If the follow up backlog is the thing that keeps slipping, start with the time calculator. If you are weighing sign in tools, the comparison pages say plainly which kind of operator each option suits.
Free tools
Open House Calculators for Solo Agents and Small Teams
Two free tools that turn a weekend of hosting into numbers you can show a seller and defend to yourself.
Comparisons
How FoyerSignIn Compares for Weekend Open House Hosts
Three honest comparisons for the agent deciding what goes on the door table this Saturday.
Main guide
How to Run a Weekend Open House Solo, From Setup to Lockup
It settles the full run of show for one agent hosting a weekend open house alone, from the MLS entry three days out to the lockup text the seller gets from the driveway.
Magazine
The Foyer Report
Field craft, economics, and compliance for solo agents and small teams who run weekend open houses in the United States.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes these open house guides, why the entry hall and the door table are the problem being solved rather than the brokerage console, and how to reach a person about your own weekend hosting.
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The calculators and the open house checklist were written to work with a paper sign in sheet, and they will keep working that way for as long as you want them to. When you would rather have the visitor names, the seller recap, and the buyer follow up handled without you typing after a long Sunday, ask for a demo. We set it up on one of your live listings, not on a sample house.