Open house feedback forms serve a different job than the sign-in sheet, and mixing them up costs you both. The sign-in sheet is for you: names, contact details, and the qualifying clues you will use to follow up with buyers. The feedback form is for your seller: price impression, condition notes, competing homes, what visitors loved, what gave them pause. One feeds your pipeline. The other feeds the conversation your seller is waiting to have with you on Sunday evening.
Copy the form below onto paper, or rebuild it in whatever form tool your brokerage already pays for. The broker open version further down asks different questions, because a licensed visitor can critique your photos and your price band and a buyer cannot. Nothing on this page sits behind a signup. If you came for the sign-in form instead, the one that collects contact details for your follow-up, that lives in the sign-in sheet guide.
Why feedback forms are worth the extra step
Most agents skip the feedback form or merge it onto the sign-in sheet and wonder why the feedback section is always blank. Visitors who just walked in the door have not seen the house yet; they will not tell you what they think at the door. On the way out, they are already thinking about the next house on the list. The feedback form works when you hand it to someone midway through the showing, or leave it on the kitchen counter with a note, and let them fill it out before they leave.
When it works, you get usable data for the seller debrief: the proportion of visitors who found the price reasonable, the feature that came up most often as a concern, a direct quote about the kitchen that your seller needs to hear from a stranger rather than from you. That carries a pricing conversation in a way your own opinion cannot.
NAR's research and statistics hub publishes buyer sentiment data you can cite to a seller. Feedback from your own open house puts a local face on those national numbers.
How feedback forms differ from sign-in sheets
Two documents, two audiences:
| Sign-in sheet | Feedback form | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | You (follow-up) | Your seller (decision-making) |
| When it's collected | Door, on arrival | Mid-visit or on the way out |
| What it captures | Name, contact, representation, timeline | Price impression, condition, likes, concerns |
| Privacy pressure | High, strangers see each other's contact info | Low, personal opinion, no social exposure |
| Format | Shared table or kiosk | Individual clipboard or device |
| Output | Follow-up call list | Seller debrief report |
Split them and each one gets to do its job properly. The sign-in sheet stays fast and minimal. The feedback form can run longer because it is private and nobody is waiting behind you. Visitors who refused to sign in will sometimes fill out a feedback form anyway. People will hand over an opinion about a kitchen long before they hand over an email address.
Your sign-in questions are about qualifying buyers. The feedback form questions below are about evaluating the property through their eyes.
The five-question open house feedback form
This is the baseline version, short enough that a visitor can complete it in two minutes, structured enough that you can aggregate the results afterward. Copy it into a document editor and print one copy per expected visitor, or build it into whatever form tool you prefer.
Open House Feedback, [Property Address], [Date]
Your honest thoughts help the sellers make better decisions. This form is anonymous and shared only with the listing agent.
1. Price impression How does the asking price feel based on what you saw today?
☐ Priced too high for the condition/market ☐ Priced about right ☐ This is good value, priced below what I expected
2. Overall condition Rate the overall condition of the home:
☐ Move-in ready, I would not change a thing ☐ Minor updates needed (cosmetic, paint, landscaping) ☐ Major work needed before I could move in
3. What did you like most about this home?
4. What concerns or drawbacks did you notice?
5. Have you visited other homes recently that compare well to this one? (optional)
☐ Yes, the other home was: ☐ better value ☐ similar ☐ worse value ☐ No / just started looking
Anything else the sellers should know?
That is the whole form. Five questions, one open comment box, two minutes to fill out. The optional question about competing homes is the one most agents drop, and it is usually the one that earns its space: when a visitor tells you there is a better-value three-bedroom around the corner, you need to know that before your seller does.
The extended version (for slower open houses)
When traffic is light and you can talk to visitors one at a time, hand out a longer version. It suits upper-end listings where people linger, and broker opens where colleagues will be blunter than buyers.
Add these after the competing-homes question:
6a. How does the layout work for your lifestyle?
☐ Works well as-is ☐ It works but I would want to make changes ☐ The layout is a real problem for me
6b. How would you describe the location?
☐ Location is a selling point ☐ Location is neutral ☐ Location is a concern (please share if comfortable: _______________)
6c. Based on today's visit, what would need to change for you to make an offer?
Question 6c is the most useful question on the extended form and the hardest one to ask out loud. On paper, visitors answer it honestly. In conversation, people soften or dodge it. Getting that answer from five different visitors, in writing, unprompted, is intelligence you cannot get any other way.
The broker open house feedback form asks different questions
A broker open house puts a different person in your kitchen. The visitor holding your form is a licensed agent with a brokerage, a current buyer list, and an opinion about your MLS photos. They can answer things no retail buyer can, and handing them the buyer form wastes the one shot you get at a peer review of the listing.
Most published broker-open forms do not make that switch. Pro Agent Solutions' broker open house feedback piece (January 30, 2022) recommends five questions: do you see yourself living in this home, favorite features, what you like least, your opinion of the listing price, and what it would take to submit an offer today. Four of those five assume the person answering is shopping for a house. The visiting agent is not moving in.
Four things change once the respondent is a licensee.
They can critique your marketing, and only they can. Photos, MLS remarks, the price band you listed in, whether your directional signs were findable from the main road. A buyer never saw your listing the way another agent saw it, sitting in a search result next to 11 competitors.
The responses are signed. A form with a name and a brokerage on it is not anonymous feedback, and that changes what you do with it. Forwarding a named peer's blunt critique word for word to your seller carries a professional cost the buyer form never has. Quote the substance, attribute it as "one of the agents who toured", and keep the name in your own file. You are also holding a colleague's contact details the moment they write them down, which puts the form under the same consent and retention thinking as the open house sign-in privacy rules.
Attendance runs six to 12, so you quote instead of tally. The four-step debrief method further down this page works because a public open produces enough responses for a proportion to mean something. Eight responses do not. Telling a seller that "38% of visiting agents flagged the kitchen" when three of eight ticked a box is a percentage doing work it cannot support. Pull the two or three sharpest sentences and report the count as a count: three of the eight agents who toured mentioned the kitchen.
The price question sits on top of a state rule. That is the next section, and it is the reason question 6 below carries a note.
Here is the form. One page, same print setup as the buyer version, different questions.
Broker Open Feedback, [Property Address], [Date]
Agent name: ______________________ Brokerage: ______________________
Best contact: ______________________
1. Marketing check. Mark anything that would slow you down showing this to a client.
☐ The photos undersell the house ☐ The MLS remarks miss something that matters ☐ Signage or directions were hard to follow ☐ Wrong price band, category, or school boundary for what this is ☐ Nothing, the listing reads well
2. Showing logistics. Anything that would make this a hassle to show?
☐ Lockbox or access ☐ Parking or the street ☐ Pet, alarm, or occupant ☐ The showing window is too narrow ☐ Nothing
3. Do you have a buyer in this price band right now?
☐ Yes, actively looking in this band ☐ Yes, but the fit is off (what is missing: ______________________) ☐ No
4. Against the homes you have shown in the last month, where does this one sit?
5. What would you change before we talk about a price adjustment?
6. Price (optional, and read the note before you answer)
Note: a written answer to question 6 is a price opinion from a license holder, and some states set rules for those. Answer only if your brokerage is comfortable with it.
We build an open house app, so read the tooling advice on this page with that in mind. Nothing on this form needs software, and we do not sell a broker-open product. Print it, or rebuild it in whatever your brokerage already uses.
Scheduling a broker open is a separate problem with its own answer, and it lives in the guide on when to hold an open house. If you are the one touring someone else's listing rather than hosting your own, the etiquette around whose lead is whose is covered in hosting an open house for another agent.
The price question at a broker open, and why your state may care
Asking a visiting licensee to write down a number produces a written price opinion from a license holder. Some states regulate that act, and the rule does not stop applying because the paper was a caravan card. Two published examples, both primary sources, both worth reading before you print question 6.
Texas. TREC rule 22 TAC 535.17 covers a broker price opinion, comparative market analysis, or sales price estimate given by a license holder. It requires this statement, verbatim, in at least 12-point font: "This represents an estimated sale price for this property. It is not the same as the opinion of value in an appraisal developed by a licensed appraiser under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice." The rule text sits on TREC's own rules page, which is the copy to read: the Texas Secretary of State's administrative-code viewer for that rule redirected to a new portal when we checked on September 3, 2026. Texas REALTORS restates the requirement in its legal FAQ, last updated September 18, 2025. The same rule puts the document in the sponsoring broker's name when a sales agent prepares it.
North Carolina. The North Carolina Real Estate Commission published Broker Price Opinions Can Violate Appraisers Act (Bulletin 2011-V41-3, March 2011). It says a broker who is not a licensed appraiser can violate the state Appraisers Act by performing a price opinion that does not qualify as an exempt comparative market analysis, which turns on whether there is a genuinely reasonable likelihood of the broker getting a listing on that property. Read the bulletin's own worked examples before drawing any conclusion from it: they are bank-ordered opinions and loan-modification requests, not feedback collected at a caravan. We are not extending it to your form, and neither should anyone else quoting it.
Three things you can do with question 6, in rising order of effort:
- Cut the number. Ask for a direction instead of a figure: priced above, in line with, or below the comparable sales you have shown lately. Whether that changes anything under your state's rule is a question for your broker, not for us.
- Keep the number and carry the language. If your state requires a statement on a price estimate, put it on the form at the size the rule specifies, and check whether the rule also expects your sponsoring broker's name on it.
- Ask before you print. Your broker, your state commission's rules page, or your association's legal hotline can settle this in one call. Both sources above are linked so you can hand over the actual text rather than a summary of it.
There is a second obligation, and it sits on your end of the exchange. NAR's Code of Ethics, 2026 edition, effective January 1, 2026, carries Standard of Practice 1-3: REALTORS, in attempting to secure a listing, shall not deliberately mislead the owner as to market value. Whatever comes back on question 6, what you tell a seller about market value is governed by that, not by the form.
We make software and we are not lawyers, so none of the above is legal advice. Ask your broker.
Print setup that survives a borrowed printer
Here is the whole answer: US Letter, portrait, 0.75 inch margins on all four sides, one page, 11pt or 12pt body text, black and white. That setup prints correctly on an office machine you have never used before, which is the machine you will end up using at 9 a.m. on a Saturday.
The details that earn their place:
- Portrait, not landscape. A sign-in sheet is landscape because it is one page shared by many people in rows. A feedback form is one page filled out top to bottom by one person. Rotating it only makes the writing lines too long to fill.
- One page, as a hard limit. If the form runs onto a second page, cut a question rather than shrinking the type. Nobody flips a feedback form over on a clipboard.
- 0.75 inch margins. Most home and office printers reserve a non-printable edge of roughly a quarter inch, and the cheap ones reserve more. Three quarters of an inch clears all of them and leaves a thumb rest on the clipboard.
- Use the ballot box character, not a checkbox control. Type or paste ☐ (Unicode U+2610) as ordinary text. It survives a save to PDF, an import into Google Docs, and a print from a machine that does not have your fonts. Word's Developer-tab checkbox is an interactive content control, which behaves differently across editors and PDF exporters, and a Wingdings box is a letter with a font applied, so it can come back as a letter anywhere the font gets substituted.
- No shading and no color. A gray-filled answer box prints as a smear on a low-toner office printer and eats the ink you needed for flyers. Draw answer lines instead.
- Give the open questions real room. Three ruled lines about six inches wide for each open-ended question. Give someone two inches of space and you get four words back.
- Header with address, date, and a slot or visitor number. Two listings on the same Saturday produce two stacks that look identical by Sunday morning.
- Print about 1.5 copies per expected visitor. A feedback form is one page per person, so the multiplier is a per-person count, not a per-sheet count. The extra half covers couples who each want their own, forms ruined by a leaky pen, and the neighbors who arrive in the last 20 minutes.
A spreadsheet is the wrong tool for this particular form. Rows of people in a grid is the natural shape of a sign-in sheet, which is where the spreadsheet advice you have read belongs. A feedback form is one document per respondent, so building it in Excel or Sheets means fighting cell height on every comment box and fighting gridlines on every print. Use a word processor.
If you want to see what a no-signup printable looks like before you build your own, our open house sign-in sheet maker generates and prints one in the browser with no account. That is a sign-in sheet rather than a feedback form, and it is our own tool, so treat it as an example of the format instead of a substitute for the form on this page.
Build it in Word, Google Docs, or as a fillable PDF
Search "open house feedback form pdf free download" and most of what comes back is an online form builder or a fillable-PDF editor where reaching the file means creating an account first. Checked September 3, 2026. Jotform's broker's open feedback template is a template for their own form builder, and Showable's feedback form post (June 23, 2025) offers a free Google Form template. Both are real tools that do what they say. Neither one is a printable page you can put on a clipboard. This page does not gate a file either, because building your own takes about 10 minutes and the master stays yours.
Microsoft Word
- Layout > Orientation > Portrait, Size > Letter, Margins > Custom Margins, 0.75 inch all round.
- Type the header line, then the questions. For the checkboxes, paste ☐ or use Insert > Symbol > More Symbols, enter character code 2610, and set "from" to Unicode (hex). Leave the Developer tab alone.
- For answer lines, put an empty paragraph under each open question and give it a bottom border (Home > Borders > Bottom Border). A bottom border stays where you put it. A hand-typed line of
_characters shifts every time someone edits the line above it. - Set paragraph spacing to roughly 6pt before and after. That is what fits five or six questions and their answer lines on one page.
- Export to PDF. On Windows: File > Export > Create PDF/XPS Document. On Mac: File > Save As, then pick PDF as the file format.
- Keep the .docx as your master so an assistant or a transaction coordinator can edit it per listing. That .docx is the "template word" file the search results were promising you.
Google Docs
- File > Page setup > Portrait, Letter, margins 0.75 all round.
- Insert > Special characters, search "ballot box", pick ☐. Or paste it in.
- For answer lines, insert a one-column table, set the left, right and top borders to 0pt and leave the bottom border at 1pt. It exports more cleanly than a row of typed
_characters. - File > Download > PDF Document for the printable, and File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx) for the editable master.
- Keep the blank in Drive and use File > Make a copy for each listing, so the address and date are baked into the header before you print.
A fillable PDF
Worth the extra work only if visitors will type into it on a tablet you hand them, or you want typed answers emailed back. Otherwise paper is faster to hand out and faster to collect.
- LibreOffice Writer does this free and with no account. Turn on View > Toolbars > Form Controls to draw the check boxes and text fields, then File > Export As > Export as PDF and tick "Create PDF form" in the General tab.
- Acrobat's form tools do the same on a paid plan. Preview on macOS can fill an existing form but cannot create the fields.
- Test the file on the actual device before the open house. PDF form support varies between apps, and a form that fills perfectly on a laptop can be read-only in a tablet viewer.
- Saving a filled form overwrites the blank unless you use Save As per visitor. Name them as you go:
feedback-123-main-2026-09-06-visitor-3.pdf.
If a Google Form is the direction you are leaning, we wrote a comparison of OpenHouse and Google Forms covering where a free form beats an app and where it does not. We make one of those two, so read it with that in mind. The paper-versus-digital question on the sign-in side is a different calculation, worked through in paper vs digital sign-in.
Paper vs. digital feedback forms
Paper works fine. There is nothing to set up, nothing to charge, and nobody hesitating over what happens to their data. The cost arrives Sunday night, when you are staring at a stack of handwriting and trying to turn it into something coherent for the seller.
Digital versions solve the aggregation problem but introduce friction at the door. Some approaches that work:
- A shared tablet at the exit. Visitors fill it out before leaving. Works well when you are staffing the door and can prompt people on the way out. Breaks down if you are mid-conversation and visitors slip out unnoticed.
- A QR code on the kitchen counter linking to a simple form. Lower friction than the tablet for visitors who have their phone out; higher drop-off because leaving the house means leaving the form.
- Voice notes or typed notes on your own phone written up the moment a visitor leaves. This falls apart past a handful of people, and it is honest for a small showing with three or four visitors.
If you are already using a digital sign-in kiosk, OpenHouse or any other app, the feedback form stays separate from it by design. The kiosk is at the door for sign-in; the feedback form is at the exit or on the counter. The seller report feature in OpenHouse aggregates what you already captured at sign-in into a one-page summary, which gives you a head start on the debrief even with no separate feedback form.
Open house app roundups like The Close's guide and Highnote's comparison list survey the available tools. Both lead with sign-in, so check each entry for whether it collects seller feedback separately. That is the part that differs from app to app.
Turning feedback forms into a seller debrief
The feedback form is only as useful as the debrief you build from it. A method that takes about 20 minutes and produces something a seller can act on:
Step 1: Tally the checkboxes. For each multiple-choice question, count how many visitors chose each option. Six out of nine visitors said "priced too high" is a fact your seller can act on. Three out of nine is a signal. One out of nine is a data point.
Step 2: Pull the verbatims. Scan the written answers for comments that appear more than once or that are unusually specific. "The half-bath off the kitchen feels cramped" showing up three times is worth quoting. Pull two or three of the most pointed responses word for word. They land differently than your paraphrase.
Step 3: Note the competing homes question. If any visitor mentioned a specific competing property or said they found better value elsewhere, name it in the debrief. Sellers need to understand the competition their buyers are seeing, not just the abstract market.
Step 4: Frame it, do not editorialize. Your job in the debrief is to present what visitors said, not to interpret it aggressively or soften it. "Seven of nine visitors rated the price too high, and three mentioned the kitchen as a concern" is better than "the feedback was mixed" and far better than telling the seller what they should do before sharing what visitors actually said.
A one-page summary sent within 24 hours of the open house is the standard your seller expects. If you are also sending a full OpenHouse seller report, the feedback summary fits as a section inside it.
Logistics: how to hand out the form without making it awkward
Timing beats wording here. Three approaches that hold up at a real open house:
At the kitchen counter or living room. Leave a stack of forms with a pen and a brief handwritten note from you: "Your honest thoughts help the sellers, completely anonymous, takes two minutes." Some visitors will pick one up without being asked; you do not have to engineer an interaction.
On the way in, as a second handout after sign-in. "Here is some info about the home, and if you have a moment after walking through, I would love your thoughts on this quick form." Handing it at the start means they are carrying it while they tour.
On the way out, prompted. "Before you go, would you mind leaving a quick note about what you thought? Completely anonymous, just for the sellers." This has the highest completion rate when you can be at the door. It has the lowest rate when you are occupied with someone else and visitors slip out.
Avoid asking for feedback verbally and then transcribing it yourself unless you have no other option. Your paraphrase is not the same as a visitor's words, and sellers can tell. Written responses, even brief ones, carry more weight in the debrief.
When feedback forms are most useful
Some open houses do not need one. These three do:
Price-sensitive listings. When you and your seller are not sure if the price is landing right, aggregated buyer sentiment is more persuasive than your professional opinion alone. "Six of eight visitors thought the price was too high" is a different conversation than "I think we need to adjust."
Listings that have been sitting. When a property has been on the market for a few weeks without offers, feedback from a fresh open house can surface the specific objection you have not yet identified. Is it the price? The condition? The location? The floor plan? Visitors who are actively comparing several homes will tell you on paper what they will not say to your face.
Before a price reduction conversation. Buyers who actually walked the house give you material your own read cannot. A seller who is resisting your recommendation often hears the same point differently when it arrives in a stranger's handwriting on the day of the open house.
For buyers who came through and left nothing behind, the follow-up process is where you ask the same questions in a softer form. "What did you think of the home?" and "Did you see anything else that compared well?" recapture most of what the paper did not.
The open house feedback numbers nobody actually publishes
Content on this topic is full of statistics. Almost none of them have a publisher. Here is what we went looking for on September 3, 2026 and could not find, so you do not lose an evening looking for the same thing.
Completion rate. What share of open house visitors actually fill out a feedback form. No public dataset reports it. Searching for it returns general survey-methodology literature comparing internet and paper questionnaire response rates in unrelated fields, which then gets recycled in vendor blogs as though it were real-estate data.
Any measured effect on the outcome. Days on market, offer count, sale-to-list ratio, price reductions: nothing published ties a feedback form to any of them. One claim does circulate widely in AI-written answers on this exact topic: "a study of 750 open houses" said to show a large gap in how buyers rate the price with and without a detailed form, plus a double-digit lift in offers above asking. We fetched the page that claim is attributed to on September 3, 2026. It publishes no such study, no sample frame, and no methodology, and we cannot find a publisher for it anywhere else. The figures are not reproduced here, because we cannot stand behind them. If someone quotes them at you, ask for the study.
Broker open attendance. No national or per-market average is published, and NAR does not report one. Our own open house statistics study measures how many active listings hold an open house and on which days, and it deliberately does not claim this. It can say that about one in six scheduled opens runs on a Thursday or Friday and that those slots are largely broker opens and twilight showings, which is a directional read of our own snapshot rather than a census of broker opens.
Feedback turnaround. The share of listing agents who send a written summary to the seller within 24 hours, or within any window. Asserted constantly in coaching material. Published by nobody: not NAR, not any MLS, not any state association. The 24-hour standard elsewhere on this page is what sellers expect, not a measured rate.
Paper versus digital completion. No real-estate comparison exists. Every number offered for it traces back to survey research about entirely different subject matter.
Honest answers versus polite ones. The share of visitors who give a real price opinion rather than a courteous one gets cited as the reason to keep forms anonymous. It is unmeasured, and on any published method it is unmeasurable.
How many agents use one. What share of US open houses run a feedback form at all. No source publishes it, so nobody can honestly tell you the practice is standard by the numbers. Sellers expecting a debrief is a real thing. A published usage figure is not.
Where a number would genuinely help a seller conversation, NAR's research and statistics hub and its open houses resource page are the first places to check, and NAR's consumer guide to open houses and written agreements (August 17, 2024) is what some of your visitors will have read about representation before they walked through the door.
Quick checklist before you print
Before you send it to the printer:
- Property address and date are in the header
- A brief note explains the form is anonymous and shared only with the seller
- Price impression question uses neutral language (words like "fair" and "reasonable" invite agreement, so leave them off)
- Condition question has a realistic spread that includes "major work needed". Soft options only produce soft data
- At least one open text box for the comment visitors most want to leave
- The competing homes question is included (mark optional if you're worried about completion rate)
- Each form has a line for visitor number or time slot if you want to track when feedback was collected
- You have one pen per form, or a pen available at the collection point
- You have printed more copies than you expect visitors
For high-traffic open houses, Showable's sign-in app comparison and HousingWire's open house apps roundup are worth a look if you are considering a digital workflow that handles both sign-in and feedback in one tool.
The feedback form is the document your seller will remember. They will remember whether you gave them specific, unfiltered buyer feedback within 24 hours, and they will remember if you did not. A stack of completed forms and a clear one-page debrief is one of the simplest ways to show that hosting an open house with you was worth their Saturday.
Frequently asked questions
What questions should be on an open house feedback form?
Price impression (too high, about right, good value), overall condition, favorite and least-favorite features, competing homes visited, and one open comment box. Keep it to five or six items so visitors actually finish it.
How is a feedback form different from a sign-in sheet?
The sign-in sheet captures contact details and the qualifying answers you need for follow-up. The feedback form captures what the visitor thought of the house: price, condition, what they liked, what worried them. That one is for your seller. Different audiences, so keep them on separate forms.
Should I hand out paper feedback forms or use a digital version?
Both work. Paper is faster to hand off and visitors can fill it while walking through. A digital form collected at the end creates structured data you can drop straight into a seller report without retyping.
How do I share open house feedback with my seller?
Aggregate the responses after the event, tally the price impression answers, list the most-common likes and concerns verbatim, and note any pattern around competing homes. A one-page summary sent within 24 hours beats a raw stack of paper forms dropped off later.
Can I use the same form for the sign-in and feedback?
You can, but it tends to make both forms worse. Sign-in happens at the door under time pressure; feedback is best collected after visitors have walked through. Combining them usually means the feedback section gets skipped.
Do I have to collect feedback at every open house?
Not every time, but your seller expects it. Even a three-question verbal debrief you write up afterward is better than silence. A written form just makes the data easier to aggregate and present.
Is there a free printable open house feedback form PDF?
This guide does not put a file behind a signup. It gives you the question wording and the page setup (US Letter, portrait, 0.75 inch margins, one page, and the Unicode ballot-box character U+2610 rather than a Word checkbox control) so you can build the form in Word or Google Docs and export your own PDF in about 10 minutes. Checked September 3, 2026: most results for that search are online form builders or fillable-PDF editors that ask you to create an account before you reach a file.
How is a broker open house feedback form different from the buyer version?
The respondent is a licensed agent, so the questions worth asking are ones a retail buyer cannot answer: a critique of your photos, MLS remarks and sign placement, showing logistics like lockbox, parking, pets and access windows, and whether they have a buyer in this price band right now. Responses are signed rather than anonymous, and attendance usually runs six to 12, so you quote individual answers instead of tallying percentages.
Can I ask a visiting agent to write down a price at my broker open?
Asking a licensed agent to write a price figure produces a written price opinion from a license holder, and some states regulate that. Texas requires a specific statement, verbatim and in at least 12-point font, on any broker price opinion, comparative market analysis, or sale price estimate a license holder provides (TREC rule 22 TAC 535.17, restated in the Texas REALTORS legal FAQ updated September 18, 2025). The North Carolina Real Estate Commission has published guidance that a price opinion performed outside a prospective brokerage relationship can violate the state Appraisers Act, with worked examples covering bank-ordered opinions (Bulletin 2011-V41-3, March 2011). We make an open house app and we are not lawyers, the rules differ by state, and the answer for your form is a question for your broker. Ask your broker.