Your Listing Photos Are Too Nice... Episode 253

Your Listing Photos Are Too Nice... ...and there are many times where sellers are overdoing it stay with me here as I explain what I see on a daily basis let's suppose that your home has a blemish or 2 and you think that a little trick photography might help so you choose to creatively avoid those things in the marketing photos it certainly will make your home look more attractive online but consider the fact that once a buyer enters the home the will notice the very things you didn't want them to see which ultimately creates a negative experience for them we hear comments all the time like it looked bigger in the pictures it looked better online it didn't look dirty online we couldn't see all the damages probably not what you were hoping for and other the other side of the coin there are times when the home looks better in person but the marketing photos are not done well and people scroll right by for reasons such as: the front photos were taken from inside a car they stand on a chair and shoot downward in the room people and pets are in the photos the home wasn't cleaned and there is stuff everywhere when buyers are spending a quarter of a million $$$ or more a little reality goes a long way in attracting the right person to buy the home and there are times where bad photos "unsell the home" tune in for the harsh reality of these mistakes

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