How to Host an Open House

With all of these open houses we've been going to, it makes us really excited to eventually hold open houses at our house, so we can demonstrate how much we've learned. Here's some of what we learned:
1. A knife-weilding skeleton placed in a chair in the living room can add that nice "homey" feel.
2. In case people have to use your bathroom during the open house, provide them with great reading material, especially magazines showcasing nude women.
3. A knife on the back of the couch is also a nice touch.
4. Dirty clothes strewn about, maybe throw in the occasional dirty Q-tip as well, helps the potential buyer get a realistic picture of life in the house.
5. A few posters of pot smokers never hurts.
6. If we end up having tenants, encourage the tenants to actually be in the house during the open house, lurking behind closed doors, waiting to scare you.

Get back on that horse...

Well, it's been quite a week. So we put an offer down on the house in the previous post. This was our very first offer and pretty nerve-racking. Lots and lots of signing and intialing. Lots and lots of money. We found out yesterday morning that someone else had put in a little higher offer which was accepted.

In the same breath, our realtor then informed us of another house that had just come on the market in Felton, which is a little bit closer to Mission Springs. We looked at it yesterday and then put in an offer on this one. Not as much character as the other one, but bigger, and less expensive. More work needs to be done on this one, however. We'll find out about this one potentially by tomorrow (Friday) morning.