Real Estate Photography: By request, what I (as a high-volume Realtor) value in a real estate photographer. |
| By request, what I (as a high-volume Realtor) value in a real estate photographer. Posted: 30 Mar 2020 05:40 PM PDT Hey all! I'm a Realtor in the northeast on a team that does enough deals that we have had multiple full-time photographers on a salary with us. In another thread, I was asked what I would value and wondered if it would make a valuable post by itself, so here it is! (Note: NONE of this matters if I get a referral from another agent. Realtors give and get thousands of referrals. We live and die by our networking ability. I work with hundreds of lenders, but I only regularly recommend 3. Therefore, the BEST way to get hired is to have an agent recommend you to another agent. ) Every agent/Realtor is different, but the ones who do lots of deals every year (25+) tend to treat this aspect pretty consistently. It might sound blunt, but I consider real estate photographers to be mostly interchangeable as long as their photos are good. And it seems there's enough education and examples out there that there are a lot of good real estate photographers. Therefore, I want the photographer that is easiest to work with and gets the job done without too much back-and-forth, so here is what I value after I've seen that you take good photos too: -Cost -Turnaround from raw to final photos (ideally <72hrs. really ideal <48hrs) -Turnaround from me calling you to when you can come take photos (sometimes this can be just a day or two) -Examples of your work on both expensive houses and shitty houses -Can you do video? -Can you do drone? -Can you do floor-plans? (99% can't so no big deal, but it would be awesome if you could) -Are you willing to move furniture? (It's rare, but I had a photographer who was a tiny guy and openly hated manual labor, so if I was at a house and decided it would look better without a couch, I had to move it myself (real story). Sometimes last-minute changes happen and I need to know your flexible (that guy was a baby about it.)) -How well do you handle someone looking over your shoulder (literally and figuratively). (I mean the seller on this one, not me. I've worked with newer photographers who can't handle negative seller feedback.) The key to all this....is that I hate the idea of having to find a new photographer. So if I find one I like, I will use her or him for literally decades on every single house. If you're an agent in this thread, what else would you add? If you're a RE photographer, does this sound like the top agents you've worked with? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2020 10:53 PM PDT anyone applying for disaster loan assistance? first 10k is considered a grant if used for disaster relief amount given is TBD you have to apply for the loan in order to be given the disaster relief Grant. The amount of disaster relief Grant that's given is TBD and once given the loan the amount you were given in grant money is basically considered part of the loan but it's forgiven. So basically if you are giving a loan for $20,000 and they gave you a grant for $2000 then your loan will actually be $18,000 because 2000 of it is forgiven. If you are found ineligible for a loan because of your credit score for whatever reason but were still given an emergency Grant you do not have to pay back the Grant as it is a Grant. But the most important thing is you can't be given the Grant unless you apply for the loan. Even if you don't necessarily need the loan because you have savings you can apply for the loan and if given the Grant you can use that grant money to pay your rent or other expenses related to your business and you can simply just not use the loan money and pay back the loan immediately. [link] [comments] |
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