Tough Times
I met with a client last evening. She's getting a Scenes From Above website for her property, which should be up by tomorrow night. It'll be ashtabulatudor.com, and it'll be my first paid website for a customer. I'm very excited about being able to provide this high-value service to local realtors and FSBO's.
As I sat and talked to her last night, she told me a short story about how the daughter of an acquaintance of hers managed to buy a home at an extremely reduced rate. It's in a rather affluent part of the county, and it was originally listed at $150,000. Through the market being "what it is", they had offered significantly less, but the seller didn't want to budge. Some time went by, and, as it turned out, the house went into forclosure... and this person's daughter ended up getting the house for $80,000! She was a little distressed about this, as she's had her house listed with a realtor with no success.
In my mind, selling a house today is SO hard. Especially emotionally. Most anyone who is going to make an offer is going to really low-ball the seller, so you've got to be ready for this. Not to say that you need to pad your asking price out of the market, but you need to be prepared for offers much lower. It's a tough decision, but you really need to know this when you go in.
So what can you do? It's all in the presentation of your house. You need to make it as appealing as you possibly can. Obviously, having the technical aspect of pricing is very important. But HOW you present your home means so much. Check this article that I found in the Vancouver Real Estate Blog. It explains how important good photography is to selling a home.
The bottom line is, when selling your home, the more exposure you can get, the better your chances of getting your home sold sooner, and at the price you want. And it's not just putting your listing in front of the home buyers. You need to capture their attention with their first look. Scenes From Above will provide that first look appeal, typically with an elevated photo. And then, once you have their attention, you need to keep it with more high quality photography, photography that shows the true features of your house. Dark rooms, deep shadows, out-of-focus unprofessional pictures will do more to turn off potential buyers, rather than hold their attention. Let us help you to showcase your home. And now, with our virtual flyers, we can create a highly attractive flyer that can not only be printed out for your brochure box and open houses, but it can be placed online on an ever-growing list of classified advertising websites!
Contact Scenes from above today!
As I sat and talked to her last night, she told me a short story about how the daughter of an acquaintance of hers managed to buy a home at an extremely reduced rate. It's in a rather affluent part of the county, and it was originally listed at $150,000. Through the market being "what it is", they had offered significantly less, but the seller didn't want to budge. Some time went by, and, as it turned out, the house went into forclosure... and this person's daughter ended up getting the house for $80,000! She was a little distressed about this, as she's had her house listed with a realtor with no success.
In my mind, selling a house today is SO hard. Especially emotionally. Most anyone who is going to make an offer is going to really low-ball the seller, so you've got to be ready for this. Not to say that you need to pad your asking price out of the market, but you need to be prepared for offers much lower. It's a tough decision, but you really need to know this when you go in.
So what can you do? It's all in the presentation of your house. You need to make it as appealing as you possibly can. Obviously, having the technical aspect of pricing is very important. But HOW you present your home means so much. Check this article that I found in the Vancouver Real Estate Blog. It explains how important good photography is to selling a home.
The bottom line is, when selling your home, the more exposure you can get, the better your chances of getting your home sold sooner, and at the price you want. And it's not just putting your listing in front of the home buyers. You need to capture their attention with their first look. Scenes From Above will provide that first look appeal, typically with an elevated photo. And then, once you have their attention, you need to keep it with more high quality photography, photography that shows the true features of your house. Dark rooms, deep shadows, out-of-focus unprofessional pictures will do more to turn off potential buyers, rather than hold their attention. Let us help you to showcase your home. And now, with our virtual flyers, we can create a highly attractive flyer that can not only be printed out for your brochure box and open houses, but it can be placed online on an ever-growing list of classified advertising websites!
Contact Scenes from above today!
I know what you mean about the pictures helping. I recently moved to Ashtabula County from Chicago, and it was difficult to really see what the houses look like. This is important, when you live so far away. Your service has GOT to help sellers. Good Luck with your business.
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