Open Home

In Kiwiland, when you sell a house, you have an open home. You go out for an hour, and leave the estate agent in the house to show round anyone who turns up. Ours was at three o clock today and needless to say we had to spend the whole of Saturday and half of Sunday doing the cleaning.

We were a bit pessemistic about how it would go. The housing market is very quiet at the moment and it was a horror-show of miserable weather this morning, the kind of heavy rain that sets up residence for several days round here. And next door's rottweiler started howling, which tends to put people off.

But it actually went very well. We had six people round, which is quite good going, as long as they aren't all nosy neighbours. So at the moment we are feeling good about our decision to move.