Reply: Has anyone ever done lease up tours during construction?

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Mel Survivor
Hard hats and a messy construction site hmmmm not sure. Some might be ok with it. Will the project manager allow this? They would not let me walk through the construction site with clients (not safe). So they said. I filled it in six months without showing in the beginning. Leased online with pictures and lots of follow up emails. Congratulations on the new property, but most of all have fun. Your feet are going hurt. :)
Posted 5 years 6 months ago
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Rj Pizzo
You can always place easels with a foamcore sign on them at key locations throughout the tour. Have renderings of room types or show off key amenities that will be in that location. Even have them wear a branded hard hat for fun!!!
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Magdalena Illia
Congrats! I've done this in the past. Guided tours are always great, but like they wrote above verify with the GC that all is good to go.Also keep in mind that it can be too early to show to some people and they might not get the whole picture. For this I would recommend any marketing material you might have with how it will look like, to present before the tour. Good luck! Post pics of the tour.
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Ashley Miller Boyd
I’ve done it on multiple new devs with branded hard hats. Definitely need to get GC approval first. A lot of time we would have ownership talk to GC to help push it along. We would have pre planned routes every time and work with the GC if we needed to change route due to construction. If it’s early enough in planning, we would get them to build out and finish one home first, but that may not be possible for you if it’s pretty far along.
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Heath Darwin
After approval with contractors, I created a neighborhood crawl event. This gave the prospects an idea of what it would be like to live in the area. They picked up the neighborhood crawl paper at the tour and I gave them a week to complete it. After they were turned in, It registered them for some prizes.

I had a few restaurants on there, a dry cleaner, a car wash, and a grocery store. The deal was they had to go to each location and gave an employee initial off on the visit.

Before some of you start, YES some people probably cheated but it was fun and it ended up giving them an idea of the convenient businesses nearby. It’s all about location location location.
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Leah Love Orsbon
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