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I don't have a lot of confidence in the skills of a real estate agent over whatever it is that Zillow does to determine the price of homes. From what I've seen

• dingdongding 9y ago
  Why do realtors need skills to take photos and fill in descriptive fields?
  • sysblb 9y ago
    Because photos sell properties. My wife went and took about 30 shots of a $500K property that had been on the market for over a year. Within 3 weeks they had it under contract for $495K. The buyers said they had skimmed over the property a time or two in the past but when it popped up on their latest search they actually thought it was a different property because the picture were so much better. Shots from the realtors iPhone just doesn't cut it anymore... You want it sold, you hire someone to take the photos.
    • NetStrikeForce 9y ago
      And from the other side, I consistently like the properties of certain agencies in my area and I can recognise it's theirs only by the pictures. Coincidentally, they're the most expensive agency and one of the most successful.
  • yellowapple 9y ago
    That's like asking why computer programmers need to know how to use a keyboard to input text. The most basic element of a sale is "what am I buying?". If a realtor cannot sufficiently answer that question through photographs and detailed descriptions, then said realtor has failed on a most basic level. At the very least, a realtor who lacks the ability to take a good photograph ought to hire the services of someone who does (a.k.a. a photographer).