SEATTLE, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Lynn Robertson has seen her fair share of open houses. With 25 years of experience as a real estate broker in various regions of the U.S., including the San Francisco Bay area and Washington State, she knows firsthand the challenges of opening up a property for all the public to see. While an open house may create an opportunity to engage the perfect buyer, the ultimate success of generating solid leads through this approach can be hit or miss.
Moreover, the very “openness” of an open house means anyone can walk through the door, putting real estate agents at risk every day. There are instances when an open house may not be the safest option, and that’s one reason why Robertson launched OpenHouseKey.com, a website dedicated to transforming open house management.
“We always wished somebody had put together the right set of real estate tools to make our lives easier, more productive and safer,” says Robertson, who also owns the real estate brokerage firm YourSeattleHomeTeam.com. “Nobody did — so we decided to do it ourselves. By harnessing the power of current technologies and the Internet’s popularity as a real estate marketing and research tool, we’ve created a solutions-oriented site that makes open houses more convenient, meaningful and safe, while providing its users with a number of marketing, sales and consumer tools that support industry-wide success.”
OpenHouseKey.com is a one-stop portal for posting “for sale” and “for rent” properties, open house times, auto-generated QR codes for each listing, and auto-fill pdf flyers with photos + QR code. Perhaps even more important, OpenHouseKey.com features SecureShow®, a cutting-edge ID verification process that identifies buyers and tenants, and verifies they are who they say they are before agents, sellers and landlords meet them at properties. SecureShow eliminates speculation regarding who will attend an open house, while reducing the odds of “looky loos” or, worse, unscrupulous imposters popping in for a “showing.”
OpenHouseKey.com is currently in beta-testing, yet Robertson has already been named a finalist for the Washington Association of Mortgage Professionals’ “Best of the Best” award. The honor recognizes outstanding innovators, advocates and community leaders within its industry.
“I believe that part of why I was chosen as an award finalist is because this website is such a welcome reprieve for the industry,” she says. “The issues and challenges related to open houses are very well known, yet there have been no solutions for addressing them effectively until now. With OpenHouseKey.com, we’re doing what we can to make the entire open house experience safer and more effective for all.”
For more information, visit http://openhousekey.com.
About OpenHouseKey.com
OpenHouseKey.com provides security awareness and screening, along with current, user-friendly marketing tools, to sellers, real estate professionals and landlords. All this is delivered through a single-source platform website that also supplies accurate and timely information to prospective buyers and tenants.
Contact:
Lynn Robertson
President, OpenHouseKey.com
Media@OpenHouseKey.com
206-225-6941
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