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I've sold 4 homes and I have never approved anything in regards to pictures and verbiage in a listing before; however, I didn't like the verbiage in one and asked for it to be reworded, which it then was. If the listing looks good I fail to see a problem.
I did not see anything for the house I recently listed until it was published on line. I did e-mail the realtor and say she added an extra bedroom, and she changed the listing to the correct number.
Near as I can tell, the listing broker is required to take amateur blurry snapshots with a cheap smartphone and upload them to the MLS site. I'm not a professional photographer but I can certainly put a 18mm-36mm ultrawide zoom lens on my camera, mount it on a tripod, set up a couple Lowel lights with diffusers, and create some flattering images that represent my house pretty well.
That's not one of those fisheye lenses, is it? Or whatever the lenses are called where the room looks distorted because of the wide lens? I know the agents are trying to fit a lot of stuff into one pic, but those photos are not a realistic depiction of the rooms. In one pic of a kitchen, each cabinet looked about five feet wide. I would definitely NOT want my agent to use that type of lens. The other problem I see with many listing photos is the light coming through the windows creates an exposure problem and causes the rest of the room to look dark.
Not sure it does much good to review photos after they are taken.
But, I do think it can be helpful before the photos are taken to give your realtor a note of a few features you'd especially like to see included. Things that might not occur to the photographer (or the realtor). Maybe the realtor will reject them as unnecessary, but it's worth it to make the suggestion, IMO.
For example, we suggested the realtor include photos of a kayak storage system in the garage and also a large storage closet on the second floor. Neither one of these things are "sexy" and might be overlooked by someone who didn't know our particular neighborhood (in our case, the large upstairs storage closet was the envy of our neighbors because most of the houses nearby had terrible storage, so we knew that someone looking at houses in our neighborhood would want to see a photo of it; and kayaking is a very big reason people buy in our neighborhood that the realtor didn't know about).
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