I am thinking about doing a blog about them.What I did do to get prospective seller's attend is to send an antique Indian Head Nickel, that I put in a little plastic pack with my message and name in it.

We also hold broker's opens which I highly recommend.Downsides to open houses:  You need to make sure that you have your carpet protected (put down the sticky plastic).  

Up till now they would charge a $25 fee to officially decide if your desired paint change or stucco or plastic astro turf was an acceptable change.

Code enforcement is NOT going after people for putting an 18" by 24" plastic sign in their own yard.  

Just be prepared to do the touch up and protect your floors with drop clothes or plastic floor wrap.

There are plastic grates we use for french drains etc.

I like the idea of a basket with toilet paper and such.We provide our new tenants a bottle of bubbly in the fridge ($10) and some plastic wine cups.

This trash includes furniture, full garbage bags, cardboard boxes filled with various items, paint containers, plastic buckets, etc.She ordered the bulk trash removal service 2 days ago, and apparently they can take anywhere from 5 to 10 days to come by and pick up SPECIFIC items from the FRONT yard only.My closing is (was) tomorrow morning.

Buy the pump, get a 55 gallon plastic drum, cut it in half, drill a bunch of holes in it (big holes), dig a big hole in the ground in the crawl space about 6 inches deeper than the half barrel, pour 6 inches of gravel in the bottom, put the barrel in, pour gravel around the sides, set a solid concrete block in the bottom, set the pump on top of it, run your hose downhill of the house, plug in the pump and test it out (use a hose to fill the barrel).

You can think of it as if you were in a public park, where folks carry their plastic bags and/or scoopers with them when taking their dogs out, and pick it up right after it drops.