I’m looking for a new house to rent, but looking at houses for sale are great too. Visiting open houses can be a different way of exploring an area. Driving around to all these different neighborhoods and actually seeing some of the houses, is kinda cool in an offbeat sort of way. It gets you off the main streets into some of the side areas, and you certainly learn where everything is faster. There’s always listings in the sunday paper of what’s open for the weekend, just pick a place you havn’t been yet mapquest a bunch of directions and have at it!