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Any drone flying lower than the tops of a few very tall trees on my property will get shot down.
Given a choice between neighbors flying drones, and neighbors shooting into the air with guns in residential neighborhoods, who do you think is the bigger danger to society?
And that is where it makes sense. But I've seen a few shots where the only new information I learned is the location of the mailbox, lol.
We are doing our best to justify the business expense of the drone, but even we have decided it wasn't needed on a few of our listings. Sometimes it can tell the condition of the roof though!
Any drone flying lower than the tops of a few very tall trees on my property will get shot down.
And shooting a gun in city limits or in country housing tracts can get you some jail time real quick. There have been several articles where someone has shot a drone down, and they ended up in jail over it.
Man arrested forshootingdowndrone over his property
We have a drone and use it, mostly for farm properties, where it's difficult to see the whole property and how the land and buildings are laid out. REALLY beneficial for that.
Could you use a satellite photo to accomplish the same purpose? We were able to easily copy one of our house and that seems a lot easier than using a drone.
Agree that there is a point to overhead shots with a rural property. Not sure how helpful it is for most listings where you mostly want to see the house. You can't see much but the roof with those shots. But they're interesting to look at from a novelty standpoint. and to see if the roof needs repair.
I'm curious what the realtors think about this approach to find listings. Does taking photos and making a mock flyer really get many listings? It seems like an expensive and ineffective approach to me (although granted, I'm not a realtor so I could be wrong). If I got something like this, I'd think: "Hmm... if he markets himself this way, how would he market my property? Is he more interested in his drone than in getting my house sold?"
OTOH, at least this approach isn't as obnoxious as a cold call.
What's really strange is that he sent it to the tenant instead of the property owner. Why would a professional realtor do that? I suppose it could have been addressed it to the property owner in care of the property address, but if so, why did the tenant open that piece of mail? I've never had a tenant open a piece of mail addressed to me.
We are not allowed (not supposed to, though I see people do it sometimes) to use google earth images in our advertising... they are copyrighted, by google.
We are not allowed (not supposed to, though I see people do it sometimes) to use google earth images in our advertising... they are copyrighted, by google.
I'm curious what the realtors think about this approach to find listings. Does taking photos and making a mock flyer really get many listings? It seems like an expensive and ineffective approach to me (although granted, I'm not a realtor so I could be wrong). If I got something like this, I'd think: "Hmm... if he markets himself this way, how would he market my property? Is he more interested in his drone than in getting my house sold?"
OTOH, at least this approach isn't as obnoxious as a cold call.
What's really strange is that he sent it to the tenant instead of the property owner. Why would a professional realtor do that? I suppose it could have been addressed it to the property owner in care of the property address, but if so, why did the tenant open that piece of mail? I've never had a tenant open a piece of mail addressed to me.
Color printing isn't as expensive as it used to be, but it's not something I've done.... He probably just mailed it to the address - I'm picturing a postcard? Not something that would have to be opened. We do get those in our own mail sometimes.
I wouldn't give the drone photo aspect another thought. I'd think, cool, he's got a drone, and judge the quality of his pictures.
We are doing our best to justify the business expense of the drone, but even we have decided it wasn't needed on a few of our listings. Sometimes it can tell the condition of the roof though!
A wide angle lens only capable of taking wide panaramas is capable of telling the condition of a roof?
I think there is huge difference between using a drone to photograph a property that is under a listing contract and using a drone to photograph property in the hope that someone might list. It should be illegal if it's not and it should be against the code of ethics, IMHO.
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Sometimes it can tell the condition of the roof though! 
