I was just discussing in my previous blog on how to use photography to sell your house. Taking pictures of your house on your own can be fun and at the same time a learning experience. And you never know you might end up realizing that you actually have a talent in photography that was just waiting for you to discover. However, there are other homeowners who actually don't have the time to do this on their own and would prefer to go online, Google the nearest photographer in town who can take pictures of the house and be done with it. While this is another option to be made because your main objective here is to sell the house then a professional photographer will do his job nicely as what is expected of him.
After you have rearranged everything to your heart's content from the furniture tot he smallest detail like photo frames and etcetera, here comes the hired photographer. It was your first time to meet him. He started taking pictures of your bedroom, living room, kitchen, front yard, backyard of the house and what not. He showed you some of the pictures he had taken but decided to give you the final shots once he has done editing the pictures and bade goodbye. A few hours later you were sharing it with your friends online or in Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest as what most people do these days. A day after the photo shoot, here comes another photographer claiming that he was supposed to be coming to take photos but he was busy that day so here he goes.
You get confused but preferred to go with it thinking you have an option to choose.
At night time, you're watching the news on TV and found out that some houses have been burglaries by someone who pose as a photographer. All of a sudden, the confusion that you just earlier kicked in and it made sense. You might be a target of another burglar!
Yes, house burglaries or residential burglaries happen and according to FBI Uniform Crime Reports almost 1.5 million homes were broken into since 2006. And when this awful things happened, police have a difficult time tracking down the culprits. Modern technology in our time like the electronic security system or lock box for home sellers and uniformed security guards in the neighborhood has helped in a thousand ways to prevent crimes. However, there are also a hundred ways to go past this prevention.
So, in our little but effective way, we must do our part to prevent crimes in our neighborhood and in our own houses. It isn't really hard to follow some of the precautionary measures. Forget about how busy is your day ahead and how eager you are to sell your house. First and foremost, think of safety first so before you will even allow people to enter your house to take photos or to check the reported fault of your water pipes, confirm their identity and make sure to check it with their office. You can always explain to the person as to why you are doing the check up. You can never be sure.
Oh, those two who actually visited your house were: a genuine professional photographer that you hired online to take the pictures and the other one is the residential appraiser.
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