The thought of selling a home 24 hours per day may sound exhausting. In fact, if you had to stay up for 24 hours trying to sell your house, you would be exhausted! Lucky for you, there are a several ways to learn how to sell a house fast 24 hours per day, and they won’t cost you a wink of your beauty sleep. We’ll discuss one of those ways in this article: flyers
The flyer can be traced back to the 16th century when color lithographs came to life on posters. It has been working successfully ever since. Can you believe, however, that some people still don’t use them effectively? Whether you are an agent, home seller, broker, or investor, flyers are effective ammunition for you to use from your marketing war chest.
The basic flyer should consist of two items: house information and seller contact information. With these two items listed, you are able to sell your house at 6pm, or 6am, or anytime in between.
Imagine a jogger from the next neighborhood over is going for an early morning sweat-a-thon. He decides to go through your neighborhood (which has a better elementary school district than his) and sees your gorgeous home, beautifully displayed with its new shutters, new paint, and expertly manicured lawn. He sees a for sale sign in the front, but alas, doesn’t have a cell phone in tow. Even if he did, he wouldn’t want to call you or your agent at 6:15am during his workout. What does he do? He keeps jogging OR he snags a flyer out of the display box, unenvenly folds it into a manageable size, puts it in the pocket of his sweat pants, and continues on jogging.
Before your alarm even considers waking you up in the morning, you’ve generated a solid lead for the sale of your home. Even if you miss your alarm, and sleep until 10am, you have achieved your goal of getting an inquiry on your house. All this from the comfort of your King Sized bed.
Now, the minimum contact information you should have on your flyer is the address of the home (yes, people usually look at more than one home at a time), and your contact information (phone number and email address). Another good idea would be to have a website for the house, which will give the future buyer the opportunity to take a tour of your home before calling or emailing you.
Additional ideas include having the price, school districts, number of bedrooms, number of baths and approximate square footage of the home. This allows the flyer to answer the barrage of questions that a future buyer is likely to have for you. Better they get it off the flyer than by asking you the same 10 questions over and over again.
There is even a group in my town that uses flyers to sell other houses. They put all of the houses they have on the back of the flyer: one of the best home selling tips I’ve seen lately.
The exact strategy you take with your flyer is not as important as making sure you always making sure you have a flyer available. Don’t be one of the hundreds of agents and sellers that leaves the flyer box empty after the first 3 days on the market. People actually do take the flyers, and that is a good thing. Keep the flyer box filled with flyers. Be sure to at least get the basics on the flyer, and you will be able to sell your house 24 hours per day. You don’t want to miss that early morning jogger!
We encourage you to use the comments section below to talk about your experiences with flyers. Also, feel free to post any questions you may have.
Bryan Eastman has been active in the Metro Atlanta real estate business for the last 8 years. Several years ago, he and his business partner Stokely Weinberg decided to leave the corporate world to chase their dreams as full time real estate developers. After more than 80 successful projects, they have established themselves as two of the premier players in the intown Atlanta marketplace.
Both Bryan and Stokely are also very active in the community including extensive work with the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta. Visit 
I guess it only takes one flyer to work for it to be worthwhile.
I always think its funny when people have flyer boxes that are completely empty. Imagine a buyer calling you and you telling them – I just don’t feel like selling thi house right now, sorry. That is what you are saying when you don’t have flyers out.
These are a littler tougher to do in the city, but we usually put them up right under the mailboxes. They do work.
I sometimes have trouble with the neighborhood kids (or crackhead
) messing with my flyers.
Most people get cheap and do them in black and white. I personally think color flyers with lots of pics are worth the extra cost.
These flyers are especially important in the rural areas. If you have a sign on the main road, you need to make sure there are flyers there because in rural areas, it may take several minutes to just drive off the main road to see the house.
Good point Bryan…I know I wouldn’t be able to remember a phone number and address during a jog without a flyer!