RANT: 30% of listings don't have a single photo! What's wrong with these listing agents?

RANT! RANT! RANT!

As if researching suitable properties isn't enough of a challenge, now we have to deal with listing agents who don't bother posting at least one photo to show us what the property looks like.

While going through a list of properties using certain criteria, I identified 127 that may be suitable. But going through the list, I was dumbfounded at seeing that 30% of these listings do not have a single photo of the property.

And of the 38 that do not have pictures 31 of them were short sales.

SHORT SALE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE DISTRESSED!

For gosh sakes, when people are selling their homes as short sales, they are obviously in distress.  And what they need is for someone to write an offer so that the short sale negotiator can review the file and hopefully accept and approve the offer to prevent foreclosure or bankruptcy. Right?

SHORT SALE LISTING AGENTS: Are you doing everything you can to sell this property?

We know the importance of pictures, visual tours, staging, etc in marketing a property for sale.

But if the listing agent doesn't take a single picture of the property, how does that reflect on that agent's ability to market,  much less aggressively push the short sale process?

And agents, if you're not members of the local MLS where your listing appears, have you thought about either referring out the listing to someone who is, or get a reciprocal agreement so that your listing appears on the local MLS?

SHORT SALE LISTING SHOULD BE HANDLED AS DELICATELY AS A REGULAR LISTING

Yes, we know. It takes a lot of work and a long time to get a short sale approved and accepted, if a all. But these property owners entrusted us to help them sell their property to save them from a more financially disastrous situation.

If you can't give these folks the same care and respect as your regular listing, then for goodness sakes, don't take the listing.

Give it to someone who truly gives a damn!

RANT! RANT! RANT!