What’s with the eery glow outside the living room windows? Wonder if the sellers have to nail down things in the kitchen to keep them from rolling away?
Sellers, you should always get a chance to review your MLS entry once your agent has entered it. Check the text and details for errors or typos. Check the pictures to see that they’re flattering. Because why in the world would anybody buy a house if they only saw pictures like these? I won’t name the names, but these are photos of houses currently for sale in the metro Phoenix MLS. The living room shot is a house that’s been for sale for 4 months! For the first 2 months, there weren’t any pictures. I’m not sure this is an improvement.
Sellers, check the MLS entry. With 55,000+ homes for sale today, buyers will just keep moving if your photos look this bad.
Heather Barr is a Realtor. She's a chow hound, a gym rat, and the only political junkie in the USA who can actually keep her political views to herself. Instead, she focuses on educating her clients about the often-confusing world of residential real estate.
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One thing that always makes me roll my eyes is open toilets in bathroom pictures. Too bad we can’t have a “report a violation” button on the MLS system for indicating bad photos, not to mention bad directions and so on.
Good advice as this same incident just happed to me. My agent put a house that I renovated in the MLS last week. I just checked the listing yesterday and the old picture of the house was displayed. It was a picture of the house before we renovated it. Surely no one would have wanted to look at the house. If I had not checked the listing, the property would have stayed on the market 360+ days.
Great advice - I once had a seller correct an input error I had made. The property address was 2679 xyz, and the home’s square footage was 2879. I goofed and input the square footage as 2679. Fortunately I had my sellers proof the mls printout and they caught the error, so we were able to fix it within 12 hours of being on the market..
Clearly, aliens have just landed in the front yard–hence erie glow in living room windows and crooked kitchen. Do aliens come with house? are they established renters?
You are right, who knows a sellers home better. I know people who have lost a listing because the zip code was in wrong, and the seller was upset they couldn’t find their listing, so they canceled and re-listed with someone else. The information on our MLS is only as good as the person entering it. Give the seller the listing, and have them check it - great advice.
Wow. At least you can play a little basketball in the living room of the first photo. My unborn child could take better pictures than these. Were these taken from a camera phone from five years ago?!?
I want to puke.