Courses · Skills workshop · open houses
Open now · first chapter free
Doors Open, Standards High Hosting the Open House, Start to Finish
An open house is a party where nobody knows the host and everyone judges the closets. Here's how to make it feel like a private showing, keep yourself safe, and follow up like you meant it.
- Format
- Self-paced online now · live sessions announced to the list
- Length
- Self-paced any time · 11 lessons
- Status
- First chapter free · enrollment opening soon
- Instructor
- Cara Savell Keelin
Who it's for
- Agents who host open houses and want each one to feel considered, not improvised
- Newer agents who want scripts for the door and a follow-up plan that actually runs
- Listing agents who want to hand sellers a clear, honest report the same week
What you'll leave with
- A seven-day marketing plan for the week before, including a neighbor sneak peek
- An estate-showing standard for arrival, scent, sound, light, route and the printed property story
- Safety habits, a fair and consistent sign-in process, and door scripts for every kind of guest
- A same-day, three-day and two-week follow-up plan, a seller report template and a printable checklist
What you'll learn
Module by module, lesson by lesson.
The estate-showing experience
- Lesson 3: Arrival, scent, sound, temperature and light
- Lesson 4: The property story, refreshments and the route
Safety and sign-in
- Lesson 5: Safety habits that go with you every time
- Lesson 6: Sign-in: consistent, respectful, fair
Conversations at the door
- Lesson 7: The first thirty seconds
- Lesson 8: Are you working with an agent?
After the doors close
- Lesson 9: Same day, three days, two weeks
- Lesson 10: The seller report
- Lesson 11: Your checklist and your first run
Skills workshop · not a licensing course. No account needed: your progress is saved in this browser. The first chapter is free to read; the rest of the course opens with enrollment.
The rest of the course
Enrollment opening soon. Join the list.
The first chapter is yours to read now, no account needed. The remaining 4 modules and 9 lessons open with enrollment. Join the list and Cara will write to you once, when enrollment opens.
Included for Inspired Nooks Realty agents. See the brokerage →
How it's taught
Live, it’s a workshop. Self-paced, it’s yours.
The self-paced version turns each of these into a short exercise you do on your own.
The Walk-Through Audit
Teams tour a staged room and list every detail a guest would notice first: scent, light, sound, temperature, clutter. The sharpest list wins.
Door Script Relay
Partners rotate through five guest types at the door (the neighbor, the just-looking, the represented buyer and more) using calibrated questions only.
Seller Report Sprint
Using a sample open house day, each agent drafts the seller report in fifteen minutes and reads the opening paragraph aloud.
Your instructor
Cara Savell Keelin
Founder, and broker-owner of Inspired Nooks Realty
Cara is a third-generation St. Petersburg native and the broker-owner of Inspired Nooks Realty. She built the Academy to teach the way she runs her own brokerage: short pieces, real practice, and someone who notices when you go quiet.
First in line
Enrollment opening soon. Join the list.
No deposit, no obligation, no drip sequence. One email from Cara when enrollment opens for this course, and word of live dates before they go anywhere else. Agents of Inspired Nooks Realty: this course is included for you.