Straigh Forward Information for Realtors and homeowners

Homeowner: You just signed the contract to list your house. What’s the very first thing you need to do?

Disconnect from your home. The second you signed the contract it became a financial asset and investment.

Have an honest and direct talk with your agent, make a plan, and then make a schedule with a generous time line. Many homeowners tell me getting ready to shoot and show their home was the most time consuming and painful aspect of the home selling process. It doesn’t need to be that way!

The real estate photography shoot is the most important showing your home will have. Treat it just like you would any other showing – homeowners: be ready and be gone.

Your real estate photographer is working for you, to the benefit of the THOUSANDS of people who will be looking at your home on the web. It’s their job to get as many people searching on-line to take a second look at your home.

Honestly, some of my best moments shooting have been with a homeowner present, so have some of the worst. I do enjoy a brief meeting with the homeowner on arrival, it helps me understand their vision. If they must stay, I will put y'all in timeout where I cannot see you. My client, the realtor, has told me exactly what they want before I arrived.

We hear all sorts of reasons homeowners feel they need to be at the shoot. There is only ONE reason they need to be present: ACTIVE pet and gear management. Never underestimate the impact your pet gear (kennel, dishes and toys) has on a prospective buyer.

Putting things in perspective with a little math.

NTREIS allows 40 images in a listing. We schedule one hour of shooting at your home. This means I must shoot a deliverable image every 1.5 minutes. If I have to wait 5 minutes for you to sweep the floor, arrange something or stop what I am doing to answer questions, that’s 3 images I will not be able to deliver. One small change during a shoot can dramatically impact your delivery.