How do you ask an agent to host their open house?

[Brandon Carlson]

Happy New Year BP Community!

My name is Brandon. I have been a Real Estate Agent in Southern California for 15 months. 2021 was good to me; I closed nine transactions, most of them being listings. Now that the new year is here, my goal is to host an open house every single weekend I can.

I plan to ask listing agents from different brokerages if I can host an open house for their listings. The brokerage I work out is more on the boutique side. Including myself, we have five agents, and two are brand new. 

My value proposition is to provide open house flyers (no charge to them), promote the listing by inviting the neighbors in the surrounding area, and do my research in the surrounding area (comparables, school ratings, avg price per sqft, etc)

What would you recommend for me to do for Listing Agents to say “yes” ?

Thank you!

[Nick C.]

My guess is good agents will say yes. There's no downside to them. Newer or not so good agents might feel threatened. 

Another angle is to research houses that are being flipped. If someone bought within the last year for cash and is now reselling retail. Often times the agent listing the property has a relationship with the house flipper and won't mind if you host all the open houses you want. We would get asked this years ago more frequently on our flips, we never minded. It hasn't come up in a while though, not sure why...