According to the National Association of Realtors 2015 trends report, 43% of home buyers used the Internet as their FIRST step in their home search and 88% of people used the Internet as an information source at some point in their search. 83% of these people found “photos” to be “very useful” in choosing a home. This puts enormous weight on online listings, and most importantly, listing photos.  Many realtors choose to put the important job of taking listing photos in the expert han... read more

  I was not as smiley as this woman on the side of our UHaul After packing every square inch of our home, minus the living room curtains (you can read more about this in last week’s blog) we were ready to scrub. My family and I had loved our home and we wanted the new buyers to walk in and love it too. Luckily, I had the help of my super awesome parents. Everyday for the last week in my home, my mother and I would drop my kids off at a drop-in daycare. We would clean the inside of the house while my f... read more