I had a guy who's gps went haywire saw the signs and walked in. They bought the house closed last Friday. They want another one....

I use about 6 signs some put 20.... 1 sign=100 ar blogs....

I use lots of signs and many directional arrows from all the major roads. I want to do everything to increase my chances of good traffic.

I heldan open house today, 6 signs, 3 hours and 0 people stopped by, it was too nice a day here in Destin, fl. 

Yes and lots of them!

I do but in my area there are limits as to how far out the signs can be, and often are taken down by the city and trashed

It is important, especially when it is a flag lot, and or when there winding streets with the same name except it lane or court.  A

Yes, and I use brokerage appropriate colored balloons.  

Yes, we put out 4 to 6 signs for each house, and in my case, being a newbie, I definitely want my name out there Robert May.  I do see other realtors putting out signs also, as you mentioned.  I think whether you advertise the Open House or not, seeing the names and directional signage in a neighborhood helps!  In our niche, people from our community are stopping in, since it's an age-restricted community.

More is better.

The more the better!

Yes, with balloons!

Signs?

Absolutely YES!

When you think 6 are enough, put out ten.

When they come in, ask?

Time to get those signs out again Robert, look at the success they brought to Sam.

If I do hold an open house I do put out directional signs.  Not many open house events in my market right now, houses don't last long enough...

Unless there are community restrictions, I place lots of directional signs.  

I put out 4-6 directional signs depending on the location of the house, and used balloons last year. They always seemed to pop! I like Lyn Sims idea of using flags. Would tie in Re/Max colors nicely!

Directional signs are common in our area.

Our signs have directional arrows on them. U use 10-12 signs to point in my OH direction. 

Yes - I picked up a few signs to help with this for cheap @ Menards. Like 2-3 bucks per sign. Very useful!

YES, I use my signs. I have two sets of 6, the old ones are pretty beat up, but I add one or two if we're deep in a neighborhood.  No harm in using them, and it draws in the neighbors and more casual lookers.  

More bodies, creates more interest, which creates more and better offers is my opinion. 

Yes we always put up directional signs, or we will only get neighbors.

Robert May it is a good idea to use directional signs for open house.

At least 12 signs

Directional signs are needed to attract for drive-by traffic. 

often people are not "looking" for a open house. so directionals are helpful. your name anywhere is a good thing. even bad press is good press :)

My arrows are my bread crumbs! 

Yes, my name, number and broker name.  Held one earlier today and not one person! That's fine the homeowner came by and we enjoyed the wonderful weather as we sat on the pation and chatted.  He shared memories from living in the home the past 25 years. 

I put a few signs out. Years ago I put 15. These day, the open houses I do are not public ... they are private and no signs are out. 

I rarely do opens any more so I don't know Robert.

I do, although in Carlsbad they are now being much more restrictive on where they can be placed. Despite GPS they can still capture those driving around and looking, and there is the in-your-face advertising

When I co-market an open house with a real estate agent friend, I have put out 50+ 18x24 directional open house signs with a sloppy font made from my own handwriting. The amount of signs depends on the amount of locations that would be good to put a sign. I figure I havent done my job if code compliance doesn't stop by the open lol. It has made a huge difference in the amount of people that come by an open. this number of signs can be a lot of sweaty work, but that is why I do it because others will not and it gives our listing a big advantage. 

I always put signs out. I want to guy who doesn't know about it to somehow find out about it, and signs are a good way.

In Denver homes are going so quickly, open houses make the home too unmanageable.   When it was slower, I would do open houses, but only if potential buyers could find the home with 5 signs or less.   If it was too far into the neighborhood, few would come.

Signs are good for pulling in traffic from major streets.  More importantly, you need a mechanism for capturing leads at the open house.  A paper guest register is better than nothing.  But you may want to consider using BrightOpen and Market Snapshot.  At your open house, display your listing on a laptop or tablet, ask visitors if they'd like more info on the subject property or similar listings.  If so, direct them to enter their contact info.  Going forward, they'll automatically receive robust, relevant, and real-time data.  BrightOpen is free, there's a subscription fee for Market Snapshot.

I do.  You can pull people who are out for a drive or might have missed your open house ad.  My broker has gotten listings from the amount of signs he's put out before.

What Noah Seidenberg said...

I put the address on them also. Maybe at least people can see the street driving by quickly on busier roads.

Yesterday I also had small flags by them. I agree, it seems that agents complain that no one shows up but how about putting some balloons or something so people can see the sign?

Someone here on AR has those large masted feather signs.

I did when I did them

Haven't done Open House in a long time... but we always put signs at the nearby major intersections, with arrows and the street address.

NO...if you cant use technology to find the place, I doubt you can perform