An open house might be your first opportunity as a buyer to lay eyes on your new home. Online listings and printed one-sheets can only go so far, after all. Eventually, you just gotta take a look!

Open houses can also be a strategic way to gain key information about a home. With the listing agent right there, it’s a perfect chance to ask questions about the finer details of the home’s history. And sometimes other potential buyers milling around can help take the pressure off you — they might even bring up things you didn’t think to ask.

Speaking of questions you didn’t think to ask, that’s exactly what we talked about with Sheila Smith, a real estate agent in Idaho. As the top-selling agent in Boise City, Smith is an open house expert. Print out this list, and you will be the expert at your next open house — the expert buyer with all the right open house questions!