Selling IP - Ad just isnt right!!

[Alabex]

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=105344794

There we go, a JR special.

That camera is SO heavy every single photo is pointing ... dooooooooown

I particularly like the blurry closeup of the carpet that is coming up.

ha ha ha! oh god that is appauling!

i cant believe i eas worried some of the photos we take our crap.. but that makes our photos look like professional masterpieces.

 

[Collector]

I see it all the time when looking on realestate.com.au.

It is amazing what difference good photography and copy makes.



Check this video out http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=H60KqfmIxwA&feature=related

 

[Lamingtons]

I hung a potplant on a stick over the back fence so that it blotted out the other townhouse and when we had a look at the photo (thank goodness for digitals) you could see my whole hand and broomstick, we nearly fell off the chair in hysterical laughter. Redid it again though and it came up a treat. You have to look after your own interests, as they really dont care that much

Celica this made me LOL.. this is hilarious i am imagining you balancing a potplant with a broom LOL

 

[marg4000]

Is the land area (407 sq m) correct? Most of the appeal of the Mooloolah Valley is the large blocks of land.
Marg

 

[Alabex]

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=105344794

There we go, a JR special.

That camera is SO heavy every single photo is pointing ... dooooooooown

I particularly like the blurry closeup of the carpet that is coming up.

is the agent particularly tall?? It seems all their listings the photos are pointing down... i am 6 foot and i always have to bend down or hold the camera at my chest to avoid the downward look.

 

[RumpledElf]

Maybe too tall, there's another one where the pictures are always pointing .. up!

You find some real doozies flicking through the local listings (we're keeping an eye on local prices because we want to sell soon - there's so many crappy houses for twice what we paid that we're feeling reeeeeeeeaaally confident about getting a good price). I'm particularly fond of the ones where they have 10 photos of the outside (including the same shrub from several different angles) but none of the inside, and it is described as 'needing some work'. So much work, in fact, that they won't take a photo of it. I saw one listing where the inside was lovely but they STILL took an unbelievable number of photos of the backyard ... yes, its a nice backyard, but not THAT nice.

What exactly do REAs get paid for, anyway?

I hope the OP is feeling better about their ad after all this

 

[pennyk]

ON the flip side of the argument... some friends of ours were selling their little cottage in Sydney, and the husband took some beautiful, artistic shots of the house...... the ad was spectacular.
Only problem was the house was kind of plain. So, people were certainly attracted to view the house, but they were really disappointed when they saw the real thing. It really reduced the number of interested parties.
So, I think the photos need to be good enough to attract people to view the house, but not too good! People should be pleasantly surprised when they see the house "in the flesh".

Pen

 

[buzzlightyear]

It really reduced the number of interested parties.
So, I think the photos need to be good enough to attract people to view the house, but not too good! People should be pleasantly surprised when they see the house "in the flesh".

Pen actually disagree. You need to attract people to the property, only then can you sell it. It may not have been as nice in person, but at least it then allows the REA to start selling the other benefits of the property.

Can't sell when no-one turns up to the OFI.

 

[fokas]

Take this post as a disraceful generalisation by a Victoria but..... why is it that every (ok, ok, no all, but "many") ad's I see for Queensland property typically have photos which:

1. look like they have been taken on a low res mobile
2. are of dark rooms - no lights, and often curtains drawn (could this be because of your climate, and bright rooms = hot rooms? I tend to associate dark rooms with damp/cold)

Many Victorian ad's go the opposite way, with fabulous looking photos taken at twilight, lights blazing, with super wide angle lenses that make rooms look ten time bigger - only for the potential buyer to turn up in broad daylight looking at a tiny dump....

Cheers,

The Y-man

My guess would be a succesful real estate marketing company that started in Victoria in 1992 that aggresively flooded the market with it's photography and real estate advertising... Just a guess.

Also it's been vendor paid advertising for a long while done there I'm fairly sure...

 

[DCI]

i saw a good title recently it said "F#@K the price, owner says just sell it!"

Buyer responds: It's a piece of S##t, no wonder....

 

[Alabex]

What exactly do REAs get paid for, anyway?

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Ouch!

 

[RumpledElf]

hehe

I asked our (very good) local agent today if this big ugly overpriced box of a house we keep driving past (complete with neck-high weeds, mountain of junk mail and for-sale sign with moss on it) was available for rent. He came back with yes, for $twicewhateveryotherhouserentsfor. I said that was too much for the ugliest and most expensive 3br house in the town and he agreed with me

I'm SO hiring him to sell ours in a few months.

 

[Collector]

Surfing units in Parramatta, came across this property, then saw the photos of the kitchen - great shots

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=105353795&f=30&p=30&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c=61271579&s=nsw&snf=ras&tm=1229305040

 

[tess85]

^^ lol. it might actually be worth going to the inspection.. maybe other people will be so turned off by the mess that they strike it off the list...

 

[Rixter]

Ok so how much importance do we place on an internet ad when selling a property?
I am a photographer and so obviously place a lot of importance on the photos. We are in Melbourne and the house we are selling is in QLD so i have not been able to take pics.
Its only a little 2 bedder but the pics the agent has taken are nothing short of pitiful.

Being photographer why dont you jump on a plane fly up for the day take some photo's that will sell the place better for you.....for the cheap cost of plane ticket well worth the exercise imho.

 

[urban cowboy]

there are also several companies that specialise in real estate photography in SEQ that will do the job for a couple of hundred dollars - peace of mind that it is being presented in the best light!

 

[Alabex]

Surfing units in Parramatta, came across this property, then saw the photos of the kitchen - great shots

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=105353795&f=30&p=30&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c=61271579&s=nsw&snf=ras&tm=1229305040

annie and tony have a cupboard each and someone else gets the bench???

 

[MissMuffitt]

Surfing units in Parramatta, came across this property, then saw the photos of the kitchen - great shots

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=105353795&f=30&p=30&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c=61271579&s=nsw&snf=ras&tm=1229305040

Honestly... does no one look at these pictures before they are put on the web site??

If I was the owner of that unit, I would be royally P*ssed off at the state of that and be asking the RE what they thought they were doing putting that in my for sale add...

 

[Rixter]

Honestly... does no one look at these pictures before they are put on the web site??

If I was the owner of that unit, I would be royally P*ssed off at the state of that and be asking the RE what they thought they were doing putting that in my for sale add...

Its could be the owners PPOR. As such, if they keep & present their house like that for sales purposes they probably wouldn't realise or know any different.