I was on MLS this morning looking up properties and came across a listing with a photo that was less than ideal. The first photo on MLS is very important. It is the first impression we form of that home and many times, we keep blasting by if it doesn’t grab our attention. This is the first photo on MLS of a home in the Aurora neighborhood I was searching.
You can see that the photo was probably taken with a cell phone. The person was not standing very still for this one since it is not at all in focus. And who cares about a corner of a room with carpet? There is nothing in this photo that makes me want to look further.
Our MLS photos feed over to all the other real estate sites in the order in which we place them. If I look this home up on Zillow, trulia or Realtor.com, the same first photo shows on all national sites.
I wonder if the seller has taken the time to google their listing only to find that the listing agent has done an inferior job of show-casing their home.
It doesn’t take much effort to present a home in its best light. It still makes me wonder why some listing agents just don’t care and how they earn the listing in the first place.
I take pride in my presentation of a new listing. This agent obviously just doesn’t care. Too bad for Mr. Seller.
... I also think the MLS needs to stop feeding Z listings
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