Ten Tips In Taking Pictures To Sell Your House
I am a Houston Realtor, but the advice below is applicable to any person attempting to sell their house; Realtor, Investor or FSBO. Photos sell the house. Without great photos you are making your job extraordinarily difficult.
1. Don't take a shot where 90% of the picture is street and sky, and the house is a dot in the background. Buyers would like to see the housenot the street!
2. Don't take a vertical shot and post on sites that show only horizontal formats. It is squeezed down to a horizontal format. Those bath photos with the ultra-wide toilet is the worst
3. You've a useless photo? Re-shoot it! Drive back out again and take it at a better time. The house faces east? Duhhdon't shoot the exterior late in day so the front is in shadows. Come back in the morning.
4. Your photograph is taken from far away, and you can not tell which one of the one or two homes is for sale? There must be a pit bull in one yard and you are afraid to come any closer.
5. The very first picture people see is the hall? People aren't purchasing the hall! Show the outside first! Make an effort to order the photographs in a sensible order just like you were walking through the property
6. A hazy photo? Throw that camera away or learn to use it. Hold it against something to steady it if you need to. Sheesh this isn't complicated folk.
7. Not enough pictures. Often it can not be helped. If the rooms are being utilized for storage and stacked to the ceiling, you can't take the photo. But that is the single reason! The more photos the better!
8. The photo with the rubbish can on the porch? ! I know; your heals may get scuffed on the gravel if you have to move it yourself. Do it!
9. Dark, cloudy day and features can't be seen? try again!
10. My number one favorite of all dumb photographs is.the one that shows the inside of the car; the door frame or rearview mirror of car. The individual did not even get out of the vehicle to take photograph! Stupid! At least slow down if you are going to do this, so it isn't blurred.
Well. I feel better now. I'm a Houston Heights Realtor. I know that in old homes especially, If the photos of your place are hideous, you deserve to struggle. If they look good, your property will sell much quickerr. Congratulations!
Rich Martin is a Realtor in some of Houston's oldest neighborhoods. Houston Heights homes for sale is his specialty. These early 1900's homes are mainly Craftsman Homes.