Importance of a Virtual Tour

Importance of a Virtual Tour
I have noticed that a lot of Realtors and Brokers have realized the importance of a Virtual Tour. We have been preaching this since the start up of Dream House Photography after buying our dream house and selling our old one. We searched online and then narrowed the search to the ones we liked. They all had a Virtual Tour, and we only had to look at a few of them before we selected and bought our dream house. We then put a VT on our old house and it sold within a month. That, during a slow market sold us on the advantages of a virtual tour and thus Dream House Photography was born.Recently I have been approached by both Brokers and Realtors that have ordered a virtual tour and no longer ask questions about the process or the price. Given their new realization of the advantage and our grantee of fast and good service and support and our commitment to quality have them knocking at our door. I expect this year to be good for business and better for the market.I believe that our first year came at a good time. While the market was dropping, aggressive Realtors were listing their properties with a virtual tour. This influx of electronic media have made potential buyers seek out listings that included a virtual tour. Often, not stopping to look at a listing that didn’t have one. That says a lot for the future of the market and the future for advertising of homes for sale. As a note to anyone in the real-estate marketplace, Brokers, Realtors, Agents, owners or sellers alike, “get yourself a virtual tour” for your listing. It can only save you time in showing a home, money in advertising, and your foot in the stream of competition out there on the market today.KeithDream House Photography http://www.dreamhousephotography.com/

Marketing Strategies CD Presentation

Let me tell you what, Cheryl, our National Marketing Manager has hit a home run on the Strategies CD Power Point Presentation. I have had the recent privilege of giving it with my own Dream House Photography spin for my local area. From that presentation, I got the office manager and broker to agree to paying 50% of the realtors cost for the virtual tour. Terry and I went from 1-3 tours a week to this week alone I have 5 scheduled and just got 2 more. I am so glad RTV called me to tell me about the RTV Virtual tour business. I selected for the quality of the software an the quality of their service to their Full Service Dealers.

It is so good to have the backing of RTV, and RPM a.k.a. Cheryl, as our national marketing manager. With this type of backing and the professional technology of our tour builder, being a first time business owner is easy. The product sells it self due to the quality of virtual tours that the Real Tour Vision software provides. It is of no wonder to me why we are the #1 virtual tour company on the market.

Thank you Rick for calling this old Navy guy, Jason for providing great information for those of us in the field, and thank you Cheryl for that marketing magic that most of us don't have the creative juices to think up, nor the time it takes to put it together. You are truly worth your weight in gold.

Keith
Dream House Photography

One Realtor's View of Virtual Tours

One of my clients recently wrote this note.

Anyone who is in the real estate market will tell you that the market has gone down hill tremendously and it doesn’t look like it going to come back for a while. Fortunately for me, I stumbled across a company called Dream House Photography. It is a virtual tour company that is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia that helped me improve my business, as well as decreased the time my listings are on the market. Dream House Photography came into a house that I had just listed and took high resolution still shots together with a 360° virtual tour. Dream House Photography did all the work. The married couple who run Dream House Photography, Keith and Terry Frank are very professional and do an amazing job. Dream House Photography has the ability to take a house that at first appears unmarketable and turns it into something that prospective buyers want to schedule a viewing. By using Dream House Photography, I have cut my time shuttling clients to and from homes because they are able to view the virtual tours online thus saving time as they have already viewed the home once. This means they are interested in the house and have called me to view the home for a second time. In reality, they have viewed the home once online and once in person and that means they are interested and the chances of selling increase more than doubled. Dream House Photography has saved me both time and money. I thought that virtual photography would be expensive, but I was pleasantly surprised. Dream House Photography was not only reasonable, it was the best deal around; they don’t charge extra if you lower the selling price and need to change the listing price online. I had worked previously with another virtual tour company and was charged for any changes I made. I highly recommend Dream House Photography to any real estate agent in the Tidewater and Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Dream House Photography has photographed homes I’ve listed in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Suffolk, Chesapeake and even Newport News. If you need a virtual tour, check out Dream House Photography at http://dreamhousephotography.com
I promised you will happy you did!

Virtual Tours Increase Internet Hits

I want to take the time to thank Real Tour Vision for the quick and easy sale of my home in the Virginia Beach, section of the Tidewater and Hampton Roads area. While buying my new home I discovered 360 degree photos and virtual tours and wondered how they made it. After, researching several companies over the internet I discovered Real Tour Vision. Being a retired Navy man, the president of the company called me. From there I entered into business with Real Tour Vision as a Full Service Dealer. From there, Dream House Photography was born.

With the training I received, I practiced on my own home that was for sale. Immediately we noticed that internet hits on the local MLS service and several other property listing web sites had almost quadrupled. The sites were now being hit by a 389% increase in traffic in just one month. We believe due to buyer interest that wanted to see much more of the property before they waste their time going to look at dozens of homes. Now we no longer got the prospective buyers that came and then just left. Now we were getting prospective buyers that were truly interested in my home. They had seen it before on the internet with the advanced technology only offered through Real Tour Vision. Fact of the matter is, even with the real estate market was on the downhill slide, we had three prospective buyers to contemplate. We did it! We sold the house within a month from the virtual tour hitting the internet. And GET THIS we got our ASKING PRICE with a minimal amount of closing cost to cover.

For this I have to thank Real Tour Vision both for my newly founded business and for the quick SALE of my old home that allowed Terry and I to purchase our new beautiful home setting on 325 feet of beautiful lakefront property.

Now if you’re a home owner that wants to sell, demand a virtual tour from your real estate agent. If you’re an agent and want to make it to the top of the million dollar charts hire yourself a Real Tour Vision Full Service Dealer that can give a truly professional marketing rocket. If you’re in the Hampton Roads area give Dream House Photography a call at 757-831-0829 or visit our web site at http://dreamhousephotography.com and rock the real estate world with your fast sales.