Monday, September 10, 2007

Anecdotal Evidence

This is the scene from my sister and BIL's house on Saturday. They are selling their home FSBO. Their house has been on the market since August, and they were having an open house. They advertised in the local newspaper, both print and online, and they have a tile ad that runs in the newspaper's online addition everyday. They put signs up on the corner at the highway, on the little road, and on the littler road to their house. They picked a busy weekend in the nearby town of Port Townsend. It was the annual Wooden Boat Festival which brings an estimated 20,000 visitors to their sparsely populated county. The weather was spectacular, not a cloud in the sky. Truly a perfect setting for a successful open house.

They had one couple come through, and they didn't even take a cookie.