The pain of over pricing and poor photos… and how not to get bit by them, 9+ questions to ask your listing agent. July 3, 2008
I’ve noticed a trend in my business lately. Several consumers are contacting our team for help in re-listing their home after having a poor experience with a prior agent. While it is true that selling activity in Puget Sound is lower this year than last, there is still some positive selling activity occurring with some [...]
Snapshots For Sandy May 16, 2007
The before picture below is the actual picture of the dining room that was in the mls when I purchased the house.
Below is the dining room now, with different furniture and paint. The stained glass piece in the landing window was made by my sister as a house warming gift.
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The only things purchased, and installed [...]
Photo Friday: Understanding Place May 11, 2007
Continuing on my adventure of trying out different themes each day, I thought I’d try a multi-media Friday…
And zefrank leads us off with an interesting video about place and context via a tour of Vegas:
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Athol continues on his quest to collect the worst of MLS photos… This photo highlighting the photographers [...]
Good Morning (It’s Friday!) January 12, 2007
Photo:7:15 am. oriented south towards Mt. Rainier ,1/12/07
Copyright Tim S. Kane
Wish I had a wide angle lens to showcase the rose colored snow on the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. Nothing like waking up to a day of Sun in the Pacific NW! If I uploaded the full size picture it gets [...]
We interrupt your regular programming… January 3, 2007
First, my sincere apologies for those not “into” this kind of thing, but I just got these in the mail and had to share.
The little “cowgirl” lives at the beach in L.A. Mom as shown, is my eldest daughter, Tina.
Well, I know Anna will like them
Maybe we can get Anna to [...]
The Value of High Quality Photos for Real Estate Listings
In previous writings for Rain City Guide on the subject of real estate photography, I’ve emphasized more of a ‘how to’ or ‘how to improve’ approach for Realtor’s who photograph their own listings. I want to shift my emphasis toward raising awareness regarding the value of high quality photography for listings and actually learning [...]
Photos that tell you something November 29, 2006
Further to Galen’s post on photos, I like shots that tell you something. We have a 15 photo max, so that usually leaves room for more than just the obvious. Photo number one MUST be an EXTERIOR shot, per mls rules. And NO PEOPLE allowed. They seem to be Ok with pets…until [...]
The Big List of RCG Plugins October 3, 2006
My list is a little longer than Greg’s…
Akismet. A must for WP blogs… I’ve complained in the past how their service is somewhat of a blackhole and I can’t seem to rescue a few of the people who leave comments on RCG from the Akismet spam filter. Nonetheless, the service catches hundreds of spam messages [...]
I believe that real estate agents are either in marketing or… August 27, 2006
Google is doing a major update on their backlink calculator. One of the updated datacenters is showing over 1600 backlinks to RCG while the regular search is still only showing 733. This is great news! The more often Google re-indexes backlinks the better because we get so many more (recognized) backlinks [...]
Ten for Galen August 26, 2006
I took a walk with my camera this morning and put these ten together for Galen. Not sure if it’s what you want me to talk about Galen, but give me a better idea and an example, and I’ll try to get closer to what you are looking for.
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