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When Buying Your New House, Keep Your Floorplan For When You Sell

I doubt i'll surprise anyone when I tell you that we're a nation that's becoming increasingly dependent on instant information.

Send a tweet with a question - expect an answer within 30 seconds.
Sign into a website - more often than not, there's a "Chat With Me" option for instant help.
Look up a new house for sale and see no photos - we immediately ask "what's wrong with it?"

So it doesn't surprise me at all that when a prospective buyer is looking at the photos of your house online (presumably your agent has taken them and put them online), that they want to imagine the home before they go see it. It's much easier for a buyer to imagine what the house looks like, when they have the images to put together with a floorplan and/or virtual tour.

Being able to supply things like the floorplan is another way of getting the right buyers into your home, to make a potential sale.

So when you're buying a recently newly built home, where the floorplan hasn't been modified much from the paper version - keep that! Give it to your agent! All the information we can get will help us, help you.

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Laura J. Rubinchuk
Keller Williams Realty
McLean, VA
703.283.6120
Laura@TheLJRGroup.com

Posted by Laura Rubinchuk - The LJR Group - Your Northern Virginia and D.C. Realtor on 10/31/2009 10:49 PM

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6 Comments on When Buying Your New House, Keep Your Floorplan For When You Sell

OCT

That's so true!! Good advise Laura!

And you're right...what's up with that house with no pics......

Have a great night!

You're right. That could save us so much time in our microwave world. Great post...

Good advise and we try to keep all the new home brochures and provide our clients with a copy of their floor plan, put it on the marketing brochure and make it a downloadable item on our website. We have had great feedback with this!

Our MLS has a way for agents too attach things like PDF's for that purpose, the problem is only other agents can see. Wish public could access it.

Shirley: Thanks! I HATE when there are no photos..even as an agent, my instinct is "what are they hiding?"

Latonia: Absolutely.

Laxson Assoc.: I've done that for my clients when they buy new construction. I keep a copy in their file, so I have it when they go to sell, in case they misplace it. But I also scan and email them a copy, as well as give them a print out. Wow, that makes me OCD.

Keith: If you make it a .jpg file and upload as an image (along with the house pictures), would that solve your problem?

NOV

Great point. If only all of us were so organized!! It seems like floor plans are becoming just as important as the pictures are - I have buyers ask for a floor plan more than pictures actually.

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