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Marketing Your Property: Make Sure The Camera Is In Focus

Posted on April 21st, 2009 10:34pm by Candy Evans
Filed under market trends, marketing your home for sale

Not exactly the photo you want the world to see when you are marketing your home for sale. You’d think the agent would have known better, but the buck always stops with us, the homeowners. Of course, maybe the problem is that this home happens to be on Margarita Drive

8 Comments to “Marketing Your Property: Make Sure The Camera Is In Focus”

Wyman @ April 21st, 2009 at 10:49 pm

Her camera has been drinking again!
Shut The Front Door @ April 21st, 2009 at 11:28 pm

Does the property back up to Rehab Rd.?
Shut The Front Door @ April 21st, 2009 at 11:30 pm

Are there twelve steps that go up the walkway?
bmk @ April 22nd, 2009 at 7:35 am

Unfortunately, when viewing listings I see a lot of issues like this. You often see agents posting pictures of property at Christmas or with snow in front. When those properties are still listed in June that is problematic. You would think things like the look of your listing would be real estate 101.
Drew @ April 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am

I love the irony of this one.

Sad there are so many listings like this. How many times have you seen photos of a home that shows how the residents live in virtual squalor or have a complete and total inability to stage their home for a sale.

The only thing worse I can think of the home in Oak Point we viewed a few years ago where the teenage son was asleep when we walked in for the showing – and the home was filthy inside.
in dallas @ April 22nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm

We are moving to another part of the country and you would not believe some of the photos I’ve seen on real estate websites. One had the family dog walking through the kitchen and another had a 2 liter bottle of Coke on the kitchen counter. These houses were both on the market for $700,000+.
Drew @ April 23rd, 2009 at 9:02 am

If it is any consequence, I now (sadly) live away from Dallas and am trying to sell my condo and the photos typically seen on Dallas realtor’s site (such as ebby.com) are FAR better than what is seen on sites where I live.
Colleywood @ April 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 am

There’s a great website devoted to such unfortunate photos: http://www.lovelylisting.com. Great fun…

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