Corporate · · 2 min read
How to Elevate Your DMV Real Estate Open House with a Mobile Coffee Cart
A coffee cart keeps buyers at an open house longer: they stop to order, talk to the agent while the drink is made, and walk the home slowly with a coffee in hand. Custom cups carry the brokerage’s name or logo out of the door.
By Loomie Coffee · Updated
If you are a real estate agent in Washington DC, Maryland or Northern Virginia, you know how competitive the market is. When you represent a luxury property in Bethesda, Arlington or Georgetown, beautiful staging and professional photography are only the baseline.
To make a property memorable, you have to create an experience. A successful open house or broker’s open is as much about how buyers feel when they walk in as about what they see. Here is how a coffee cart helps.
1. Keep buyers lingering longer
The longer a buyer stays, the more easily they picture themselves living there. Usually the walkthrough takes five minutes.
With an espresso bar in the kitchen or on the back patio, the pace changes. Buyers stop to order a latte and wait a moment while it is made, which is your chance to talk about the home. With a warm drink in hand, they walk through more slowly and notice more.
2. The smell of a home
Every agent knows the trick of baking cookies before an open house. Freshly ground espresso does the same job, and it fills a kitchen with the smell of a lived-in, welcoming home.
3. A draw for broker’s opens
A broker’s open needs a reason for busy agents to come on a weekday. A catered café, with house-made flavors and latte art, gives them one, and agents who have been looked after tend to remember the listing.
4. Branding that leaves with the buyer
Every buyer who walks out holding an iced latte can carry your name with them. Custom cups can carry your brokerage logo or your own name, so the cup keeps working after the open house ends. Custom cups and custom cart branding need 14 business days from approved artwork.
A custom cup can carry a QR code too, linking to the listing or its virtual tour, or any design of yours that works on the cup.
5. Clean, quiet and tidy
Bringing vendors into a staged home can be nerve-wracking, and as a husband-and-wife team we treat every property with care.
- Quiet: the cart runs from one standard outlet, with nothing loud to switch on.
- Tidy: the cart needs no plumbing and a 5 ft by 5 ft area, and we leave the kitchen as we found it.
- Clean ingredients: flavors we make from organic cane sugar, with no artificial syrups.
Make your next listing memorable
Whether it is a Sunday public open house or a Tuesday broker’s open, see what custom branded coffee can put on the cup, or how our corporate coffee catering works for business events.
Send us the address and the open house hours. Get a quote. Every event gets a custom quote based on guests, hours, location and add-ons.
