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Open house rules for Georgia agents

What Georgia asks at the door: putting the brokerage relationship in writing and naming who pays you, the two carve-outs in the No Call Law a sign-in form can actually satisfy, why open house visitors sign nothing, and which visitor details pull you into the records disposal law.

Last reviewed August 31, 2026Every claim links to a primary source

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We are software people, not lawyers. This page is a plain reading of public Georgia sources, gathered so you can go read them yourself. Rules change, and how any rule applies to your situation is a question for your broker, your association, or an attorney licensed in Georgia.

Do you have to tell open house visitors that you represent the seller?

Georgia requires the disclosure in writing, and it has to reach both the buyer and the seller. A licensee has to make, or cause to be made, a written disclosure naming the party or parties the firm is acting for as agent or dual agent, and naming who the firm will be paid by. The outside deadline is the moment any party first makes an offer, so the contract table is the last possible place this can happen, not the natural one. At an open house you are almost always standing there as the seller's agent, so the practical move is to hand that written disclosure over at the door, or build it into your sign-in materials, rather than leaving it to the offer. The rule sets a written deadline rather than requiring you to announce the relationship out loud, but saying it plainly to a visitor who starts treating you as their own agent is the obvious thing to do.

A licensee shall make or cause to be made a written disclosure to both buyer and seller or to both lessor and lessee, as the case may be, revealing the party or parties for whom that licensee's firm is acting as agent or dual agent and from whom that licensee's firm will receive any valuable consideration for its efforts as agent in the transaction. ... The written disclosures required by this paragraph must be made in a timely manner, but in any event not later than the time that any party first makes an offer to purchase, to sell, to lease, or to exchange real property.
Georgia Real Estate Commission Rule 520-1-.06(4)(b), Disclosure of Brokerage Relationships (opens the source in a new tab)

Checked at the source on August 31, 2026

Can you call or text an open house visitor afterwards?

Georgia's No Call Law only bites on a call that counts as a telephone solicitation, and the statute's own definition carves out two things that matter after an open house: a call made with the subscriber's prior express invitation or permission, and a call to someone the caller already has a prior or current business or personal relationship with. That makes the sign-in sheet the place you earn the exemption. Ask in plain words whether it is okay to call or text about this house and others like it, and keep the answer stored with the lead. A visitor who leaves that box unchecked is someone to email or leave alone, not a number to start dialing on Monday morning.

"Telephone solicitation" means any voice communication over a telephone line for the purpose of encouraging the purchase or rental of, or investment in, property, goods, or services, but does not include communications: (A) To any residential, mobile, or wireless subscriber with that subscriber's prior express invitation or permission; (B) By or on behalf of any person or entity with whom a residential, mobile, or wireless subscriber has a prior or current business or personal relationship
Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, No Call Law (O.C.G.A. 46-5-27) (opens the source in a new tab)

Checked at the source on August 31, 2026

Do open house visitors have to sign a buyer agreement?

No. You do not need an agreement signed by people who walk through an open house you are hosting for your own seller. The Georgia Association of REALTORS puts it plainly: the seller's broker already has the client relationship with the seller along with a compensation agreement, so no agreement with visitors is needed just to let them look around. The line moves the second a visitor asks you to work for them. If one of them wants to work with you to go see other properties, a compensation agreement is needed at that point.

Do I need, as a seller's broker, to get visitors to an open house to sign compensation agreements? No. The seller's broker already has a client relationship with the seller in the transaction along with a compensation agreement. Therefore, no agreement with visitors is needed. Of course, if one of the visitors then wants to work with the seller's broker to see other properties, a compensation agreement would be needed.
Georgia Association of REALTORS, Answers to Your Questions About the NAR Settlement and the New GAR Forms (Q14) (opens the source in a new tab)

Checked at the source on August 31, 2026

How should you handle and store visitor contact details?

A normal sign-in list holds names, addresses and phone numbers, and Georgia's records disposal law does not prescribe any particular disposal method for a record that contains only that. What the state does expect you to dispose of properly is anything carrying a date of birth, a driver's license or ID number, a Social Security number, a photograph, or medical information, and proper here means shredded, erased, or modified so the information cannot be read. That is a strong argument for asking the least you need at the door: a name and one way to reach them. Whatever you do keep, keep it where no unauthorized person can get at it, and destroy it that way when you are finished with it.

The law does not specify any particular method of disposal for items that contain only names, addresses and telephone numbers and no other information. However, a business should properly dispose of any documents that include a person's fingerprints, photograph, Social Security number, passport number, driver's license number, personal identification card number, date of birth, or medical or disability information. ... In order to dispose of this material legally, a business needs to do one of the following: Shred such records before throwing them away; Erase the personal information contained in any records before discarding them; or Modify records so that the personal information is unreadable. Your business must take every reasonable action to ensure that no unauthorized person will have access to your customers' personal information.
Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, Disposal of Customers' Business Records (O.C.G.A. 10-15-1) (opens the source in a new tab)

Checked at the source on August 31, 2026

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