Agents, I Need Your Help

In our somewhat remote location, the problem isn't cost, but it is convenience.  It's not feasible to bring a virtual tour photographer to a vacation area, far from the nearest metropolis. 

We needed a do-it-yourself solution to virtual tours, so I purchased the Egg360 lens setup.  It worked fine until the Egg hosting debacle.  Now we shoot a lot of still photos and assemble them into a Powerpoint presentation.

Most of my marketing dollars goes toward activities that generates high returns.  Although I do my own VT, I believe if you can show agents the benefits and ACTUAL return on investment, which most vendors don't do, you'll probably get more business.  Most people need to understand that Realtors are operating a business and we need to know what our ROI will be.

Good luck. 

Since being able to use so many individual photos of a property in a number of web sites and the MLS I have gotten away from using virtual tours.  But I am not against using them is necessary.

I think the overwhleming response you are going to get is money.

Being a real estate professional is EXPENSIVE....it always seems as though everyone around us thinks we are the money tree and everyone just keeps shaking.

I do use virtual tours that I create myself and I can do them for free which makes hiring someone out of the question.

I do see a business opportunity there for you though...but as most real estate professionals will tell you they like to do everything at one time rather than have to send someone back out to the house for the pictures then wait for them to make the tour, etc.  Meanwhile you listing is on the MLS with no pictures?  That is not a good thing.  That's why we do most of the work ourselves instead of hiring it out.

I'm not against virtual tours, but I am very impatient.  I don't like to sit and wait for it to download and then spin me all around 1 room at a time.