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t1_j68wpof wrote

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t1_j697tl6 wrote

Whenever I see out-of-season real estate pictures, I tend to assume that the house has been on the market since it looked like that outside.

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t1_j69a4v8 wrote

Not necessarily the best advice:

  • an “out of season” looks like it was re-listed after a long time on the market;

  • as in my case, a little snow coverage obscured the horrible condition my large yard was in, ie turned to a lot of dirt during many droughts. Looked amazing in photos, and it worked.

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t1_j69tvgw wrote

Your pictures need to be seasonally correct for when you list them. Buyers see old pictures and immediately think there is a bad reason that house has not sold since the pictures were taken.

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t1_j69ys3m wrote

You should be using professional pictures for selling your house, not random shots you took yourself the previous summer/spring.

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t1_j6a8cux wrote

And, for the love of fucking goodness, don’t use your damn cell phone. Splurge and pay a photographer to come out and take nice photos. Ask them if they have a drone for getting quality photos of the roof.

Sincerely, a MN licensed real estate agent

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t1_j6a9wk4 wrote

unless your house is shit then winter pics only, even in summer

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t1_j6acpxt wrote

In addition to this, please don't post pictures of the local parks or "scenes". I can go on Google Maps and see what your local park with all the ducks looks like. I want to see the property I actually would own.

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t1_j6ad95x wrote

Eh, I sold a house in the Northeast US using photos taken in March. Didn't have any issues.

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t1_j6agsa3 wrote

Better LPT: Always use a professional real estate photographer when listing a home.

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t1_j6al470 wrote

Similarly, and this may be an ULPT, if you buy a new construction house, take pics (or keep pics from the realtor website) of it in it's virgin state. And when you have it furnished - in case you sell down the road, everything looks new.

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t1_j6aok9h wrote

I think the opposite, clean up the yard/shrubs/trees take an In season photo. That's why we update pictures with seasons so clients don't think the property has been sitting for half a year.

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t1_j6au67k wrote

100% I used to sell real estate and did this with all the listings

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t1_j6azhgk wrote

Ahhhh yes. Make it look like your house has been on the market for months.

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t1_j6aznsz wrote

Unless your house is in California we don’t have seasons it’s just brown all year

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t1_j6b215g wrote

When I sold a house in the winter I played a video of photos of the yard in summer on the TV in the basement during the open house. People could stop and watch if they were interested or continue on with their tour.

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t1_j6b5tbt wrote

Terrible advice. Out of season pictures suggest the house has been on the market for long and is struggling to sell.

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t1_j6b78kg wrote

Or, in Southern California, save pictures from the wetter winter/early spring months so that the landscaping is green instead of brown

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t1_j6berdv wrote

I would have liked a few spring and summer pictures but mostly because I know that there are a ton of bulbs planted, mystery trees and tantalizing hints and I want to know what my garden is going to look like so I can plan "my" garden. I'm going to have to wait a year just to figure out wtf I'm working with... (Gardener problems, not 100% applicable)

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t1_j6bidfv wrote

What country are you in? Never heard of realestate.com and it doesn't even come up on Google.

Is the problem with the word "listing"? Would it be more accurate if I say "the webpage you look at when a house is for sale"?

Thanks for your edit. (And for editing the URL to add the .au). It turns out it's not a website difference -- it's a COUNTRY difference. I apologize for not realizing you were not familiar with how the US real estate market works.

It's wrong for me to be US-centric, but it's incredibly bizarre for you to assume that Australia is the country we're all talking about.

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t1_j6bj0ch wrote

I have a seasonal photo collection. As well as pictures of freshly painted rooms with no clutter.

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t1_j6bl5g5 wrote

I suppose there are lots of reasons for a property to go off the market and come back without having sold. I don't know if offers that fall through show up in the history for example.

I bought in the weird time where if a house was on the market for more than a week there was something wrong with it.

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t1_j6bu7xp wrote

Something else we do is every time we entertain or do a new setup or get new furniture we take quality photos of each room staged.

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t1_j6c5x92 wrote

Instructions unclear... have no house to sell because it's goddamn impossible to afford.

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t1_j6cpfhg wrote

Save? It's not 1990. We have cell phones and unlimited storage in the cloud.

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t1_j6dcigb wrote

LPT: hire a professional to take photos of your house when you sell it. 99% of buyers are going to look at your house online before buying, and if you have crappy pictures it’ll lower interest in your house.

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