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Tips for Holding a Safe Open House

Home Agents
By the Experts at Pillar To Post Home Inspectors
September 8, 2020
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Tips for Holding a Safe Open House

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Safety during open houses is a concern for all real estate agents and their teams. Use these tips to stay safe:

1. Always try to have at least one other person working with you at the open house.

2. Check your cell phone’s signal strength on the premises before the open house. Program emergency numbers on speed dial.

3. Upon entering a house for the first time, check all rooms and determine several “escape” routes. Make sure all deadbolt locks are unlocked to facilitate a faster escape.

4. Make sure that if you were to escape by the back door, you could escape from the backyard. Yards with swimming pools or hot tubs often have high fences.

5. Have all open house visitors sign in with their full name, address, phone number and e-mail.

6. When showing the house, always walk behind the prospect. Direct them; don’t lead them. Say, for example, “The kitchen is on your left,” and gesture for them to go ahead of you.

7. Avoid attics, basements and getting trapped in small rooms.

8. Notify someone in your office, a friend or a relative that you will be calling in every hour on the hour. And if you don’t call, they are to call you.

9. Inform a neighbor that you will be showing the house and ask if he or she would keep an eye and ear open for anything out of the ordinary.

10. Don’t assume that everyone has left at the end of an open house. Check all rooms and the backyard before locking the doors. Be prepared to defend yourself, if necessary.

Sources: Washington Real Estate Safety Council; City of Mesa, Arizona; Nevada County Board of REALTORSĀ®; Georgia Real Estate Commission

For more information, please visit
www.pillartopost.com.

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