The answer to the title question is a big YES! If fact to sell your Greeley Colorado home you need pictures online. The Multiple listing service sends your home listing along with pictures to many other websites in addition to the MLS itself.
Yesterday I was doing a market analysis for a client when I ran across a home that had been listed two times in the last year. This home was listed for $397,000 each time. The first time it had been on the market for 187 days. There was no picture, no virtual tour, nothing. It was withdrawn at that time. The next time it had a few pictures and sold within 35 days. Now it might have been a coincidence, but I suspect if the first Realtor had put pictures on the first listing it would have sold.
This is something that just befuddles me. How an agent can get by in this day and age for the commission they charge on a nearly $400k listing to not have a pictures? Especially in this day of digital cameras. Or how they explain the not having a picture to their clients. Maybe these Realtors are trying to sell the home themselves to get more commission. That tactic might have worked a couple of years ago, but these days it's hard to find buyers for the majority of homes no matter how great they are.
Having your Realtor take a picture at the same time as they list the home on the MLS is very important. If there is a Realtor out there that has a client for your type of home they most likely have a search which will find it and send it to their clients. This happens on the first day the property is listed. If it doesn't have a picture most likely the client will just skip over it. Multiple pictures are very important also. Sometimes you can't get a good picture of small bedrooms, but the livingroom, kitchen, backyard usually can have some good pictures of them.
In addition to pictures there are other things a good Realtor will do to advertise your property on the internet. I myself do videos as I feel they are even better and more real then a virtual tour. The entire way to market properties has been changing fast over the last 2 years. Find a Realtor that understands this.
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Marc
