A Picture is worth a thousand words or You only have one shot at making a first impression!

A Picture is worth a thousand words or You only have one shot at making a first impression! - I see this over and over and over again and I still do not understand it, everyone knows that you only get one shot at making that first impression, and yet agents continue to list a home, go on and on describing in great detail how fabulous the home is and yet they do not upload any photos when they activate the listing. Apparently they are not really working in their clients best interest.

I primarily work with buyers and I see this every single day. Let's walk through the eyes of a buyer that is getting homes emailed to them every day, especially when they first come on the market. The first thing they do is look at the picture, guess what? If there is no picture they just go on to the next home and never know how fabulous your home might be. 

Now although I do primarily work with buyers I will list homes as well, especially if these are buyers that need to sell their home first. I love to use these photos, or lack of, as ammunition when I have a listing appointment, I have no problem showing "examples" of the listings by the other agents that do not use photos.  ^^^Is this what your house looks like^^^      If these are also buyers they truly understand how critical it is to get the first impression out to the world. 

I have buyers right now that tell me they skip right over listings I send them that do not have any photos.

 Sellers do yourself a HUGE favor and ask to see the listing agents past listing photos. You know when searching for homes the more the merrier, so why on earth would you hire and agent that can't even upload a photo when they make the listing live, or worse yet they do not even take any photographs.

PS This is not a rookie mistake, I see this over and over again with long time agents and I am still amazed they are in business.  Very unprofessional.