40 E-mails, 5 RSVP's, 0 Actually Show

[Caroline Hedin]

We FINALLY listed both of our houses for rent and received an insane amount of interest.  I have responded to more than 40 e-mails.  Due to the interest, we decided to hold an open house for each of the properties.  The nicer and larger one was on Friday night from 6:00-7:30, the small one was today from 11:30-1:00.  I hade confirmation from 5 people they would be there.  No one showed up at either.

This morning, I received a phone call from a company that finds houses to rent for people and after informing her that we would not be paying a commission, I would be available from 1:10-1:30 but absolutely had to leave by 1:30.  She said great and they would meet me there.  At 1:20 I called the number and was informed they were still 30 minutes out.

What is going on?

[Mike F.]

Originally posted by @Caroline Hedin:

  I have responded to more than 40 e-mails.  

For what it's worth I don't ever correspond with potential renters via email or text, they have to phone call me so I can talk to them to set up a showing (which will be a group showing - and it will be a group showing that they don't know it will be until they get there and discover it for themselves by seeing other potential renters there at the same time, we never ever do an open house, and especially never on a weekend, if people aren't interested enough to set a specific appointment to look at the place I don't want to waste my time with them). You might want to try it. Email and text is too anonymous, plus you can tell a whole lot more about a person by speaking to them. Taking control of the situation eliminates all the time wasters. You're a bit way too 'customer oriented' in the way you're showing your property for me. I prefer to control every aspect of it and maintain methods that are super productive and minimize my time involved.