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Originally Posted by UGAplaya
Here's my philosphy about what sells a house. I think you can have too many pictures. I also don't like virtual tours. Both can work negatively against you. In my opinion, take a few pictures from the best angle you can get and let it ride. You want people to be curious enough to actually come INSIDE your house. You don't want them making up their minds off the computer. Also, I think a lot of homes are sold by how creative the wording is on the MLS for your house. You want to grab their attention and then get them inside your house. Too many gimmicks will make people leary. Just my .02 worth. :-)
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You and mynameisjan both make great points. But I want to say, from a buyers perspective, we made up our decision to go to a showing almost
solely from the computer. We knew what type of house we were looking for so we used the MLS wording to narrow it down. Then, the pics narrowed down our list pretty easily. When it comes to pics, Quality over Quantity for sure, but when there were
more quality photos online of a property, it was that much easier for us to make a decision.
The market is flooded right now. There were a lot of choices out there when we were looking, so we could be picky and go to only the homes that showed us quality online. If we just went with a list of homes that met our specifications, we'd have looked at over 200 homes (we ended up looking at about 35). Gotta narrow it down somehow.
As for virtual tours, make sure you or your realtor know what they're doing and can make a quality one. Crappy ones just look...well...crappy and don't really do anything.