Chris's Blog

Marketing the fact that you do virtual tours is ok - (I don't prefer the spinning ones) But it seems to me that including in your marketing pieces or presentation the fact that you do virtual tour...well...  its a bit like the old hotels that advertise "Free HBO" or "Air Conditioned".  - Hotel gu...

FloorPlanOnlineis a national company that integrates real-estate floorplans with photos for a spectacular online tour.  Service Providers collect the content or you may provide the content (photos and floorplans) while the production department does the photo editing and builds the tour.  No Setu...

Just around the corner from my home with its now dead flowers from Home Depot, (thanks april winter storm) there are "new" homes that have been on the market for well over a year (getting used by mother nature). Next door to it, sits a home with a car in the driveway and a for sale sign.  (but no...

Got Green Acre?  This CA listing ranks high in cool factor for multiple reasons, including the almost too perfect rolling green hills our Service Provider captured in the photos, as well as the "green" solar panels that generate power.  The place reminds me of the "happy cows come from California...

Photo Editing is frequently skipped or can eat away at agents time - the photo you thought was perfect, has the cats litter-box right in the foreground, or in the bathroom mirror you can see your good looking elbow jutting into view.  But Elbows and Litter-boxes don't sell homes...What to do - re...

Wow.  This home is nothing short of striking - It had to make my List of Cool Listing Tours.  I would buy it, but I don't do windows - that and the 2.795 mill price tag...My favorite part is the grand piano in the cool study - I'm a sucker for a good piano room.  (but can only play one tune - how...

Agent Listing Presentations - Are you looking for a way to differentiate yourself in your client listing presentations? FPO has some great tools for you to use. Just wait until you see how homeowner's react to them! Go to http://www.floorplanonline.com and scroll down to the bottom of the screen ...

This may be the most "cool" listing Ive seen online, and wanted to share the tour with you. Disclaimer: I'm not an agent, and I don't make a habit of sharing actual listings, but this place is worth seeing!  The view is great too! From the link click "walk thru".www.seetheproperty.com/9819

Look at that photo...is the tredmill melting? What shape are the windows? Is this place next to a light house? I really Hate Virtual Tours. The way the spinning, distorted, fisheye, slow to load tours and even slide shows of 2 inch wide low rez photos make you think you are getting more than you ...

The Kansas State Song "Home on the range" should now be edited to continue "where the deer and the buffalo roam (across your free land)"While you may desire Free Land on the beach in sunny Florida, it might not be as easy to attain.  In Kansas on the rolling prairie, you can get Free Land in over...