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Buyers Want Pictures Before Anything Else.
Copyright 2007 by Jody Hudson
Buyers Want to Know Before They Go. It has been our experience that today’s buyers want more and more pictures of properties before anything else; before they go see the property and actually before they even contact a Realtor. Today’s Buyer wants to see the property from the front, back and both sides as well as see features and details of the inside of the home and most if not all of the rooms inside. They also would like to see what is around the house for instance what does a person see from inside the home in all directions and what are the homes like in the community and immediately around the house. Almost none of the local Realtors have more than one picture and buyers want many; we will get the rest for you.
Today’s Buyer wants price, location, and lots of pictures and also wants to know the price of comparable properties in the area. A Smart Buyer will ask for the Asking Prices of homes in the area as well as what properties like the subject have SOLD for in the last couple of years. Asking prices are irrelevant as most buyers in today’s market are deluding themselves; thinking they can ask too much and still find a buyer. They will not. Selling prices are about what they were a year ago and creeping up by a very few dollars, very few.
Buyers Rule the Market; this is a decidedly strong Buyers Market and we do what we have always done – we seek to satisfy our clients in order to help them achieve their goals. We know buyers want maximum data via the Internet before they commit their valuable time to a showing appointment where they come here to look at properties. The modern buyer wants to see it all first.
We do accept some Sellers too as clients but only if they are intelligently willing to work within this current market and let us do what is needed to sell their homes. Some Buyers think they know more than we do and more than other Realtors and that they can do better selling on their own as For Sale By Owner sellers. We take care of these FSBO sellers too; with a menu of bits and pieces of our services that they can purchase if they want as well as some free services for them.
We have Buyers and Sellers as Clients; a client for us is someone who has signed a professional services contract with us. Once we have that signed contract we give them 100% of our attention, ability, experience and professional care. We provide these things for our Clients and when we take a listing we provide a minimum of eight to twelve pictures in the two multiple listing services we use. There are very few other Realtors who do this. We also provide an average of about two thousand readers each day that come to our web sites, which is more than anyone else in the area, by far, to the best of our knowledge.
We DO more for our clients and we go the extra mile, or two. For Buyers; once a person has contracted with us as their Buyers Agent; we will preview homes for them no matter which agent is selling it and even from FSBOs that are being sold by the owners. Buyers need even more professional help from experienced agents like us when dealing with FSBO properties. We search for properties for our Buyers and we research properties that our buyers find on their own and give extensive reports and photos on what we find. We get all the data on properties listed by other Realtors, in fact any property for sale on the MLS or not and we will go and thoroughly check out the property inside and out, check out the surroundings, talk to neighbors if appropriate and take lots of photographs and perhaps a video. We then email our findings and recommendations to our client.
We DO NOT use Virtual Tours! We use dozens and hundreds of professional photographs and talking videos. Because of our exceptionally high traffic on our web site we were offered Free Virtual Tours although they usually cost quite a bit of money. We tried them and conducted surveys from those who contacted us. We also used our usual large number of pictures. We had only a few people who found the virtual tours useful in visualizing the home although there were a few who found them useful for enjoying the views outside of the home from the perspective of looking out the windows. However, even those few who liked the Virtual Tours for the outside scenery, almost all of them preferred photographs. None of our buyers preferred the Virtual Tour over our extensive interior photographs. Well over 60% of our buyers did not like the Virtual Tours or preferred the pictures over the spinning dizzying viewpoint of spinning around on a bar stool and trying to visualize a home. We tried again on another property that had huge rooms and great views front and back and got similar results and now that we knew more of what to ask, we found that almost everyone was somewhat disoriented by the virtual tours.
We use Talkie-Walkies; Sometimes, we do a talking and walking video which gives a bit of an experiential viewpoint for our client so we can talk to them, on the video, as we walk around the home inside and out and share our views and viewpoints with them. These Talkie-Walkies are well received by most of our clients but we still give them lots and lots of regular photographs too.
Our Primary website; www.Kate-Jody.com is organized differently from any other real estate site in the nation as far as we can tell. We feature numerous areas and types of properties. We organize and display area properties in the ways our clients want to see them with special headings that are not available anywhere else.
Scroll slowly down our lengthy home page and click through to the areas that pique your interest for much more detail. Spend some time reading our numerous articles and essays too; with enough time spent on our site you will know more about real estate in our area than 99% of the Realtors here know!!! I promise and you will see why I say that as you take the time to study what is on our site. We have hundreds of pages of information and thousands of pictures on our site and we have made it so that you can find what YOU are interested in and ignore what you don’t see. We also have dozens of essays and articles regarding area real estate; you may find the articles I’ve written on thousands of other real estate and professional websites around the world as well; I allow others to use the information to help their clients in other areas too.
Let us know if you know of someone that wants to be extremely well cared for whether they are a Buyer or a Seller and we will make certain to give them the best and most professional real estate care they have ever had. Meanwhile, take some time, if you wish, and see what is going on in our real estate market now.
Jody Hudson and Kate Baird www.Kate-Jody.com our primary site www.JodyHudson.com Jody’s personal site re: real estate and other interests www.RuralRehoboth.com more specialized on rural properties www.TheRuralSpecialist.com Jody has specialized in rural interests. www.DelawareBeachBoard.com An Open Discussion Forum for HERE. www.KateBaird.com Kate’s site; she is a world class Body Builder and Power Lifter!
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