Photographs are important and powerful tools in marketing real estate.    Statistics show that home sellers who provide numerous and good quality photographs of their property receive twice the amount of buyer interest than their competition.

When photographing your property, try to follow this advise from Dave Rezendes, #1 real estate photographer in the USA.

• Don’t assume that wider is better.  Sometimes a particular vignette or architectural detail will better convey the feeling of a house and give a stronger effect.

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7 Home Selling Tips from the Lips of Top Selling Agents

• For starters, take down the Wallpaper – Trust me when I say, “Buyers just do not like wallpaper.”   If you doubt how personal wallpaper is…just walk into any wallpaper store and stare at the thousands of available patterns.  Chances of your tastes matching are at least a thousand to one.  Don’t risk it!  Pull that paper down!
• The Clutter HAS to Go!  Living in a house is alot different than Selling a house.  It is easy to get blind to your own clutter.  Ask a friend, neighbor or neutral party to be honest with you.  Then, pack away every single thing you don’t use.  And, clear the kitchen counters completely.
• Smelly Homes Will NOT Sell.  Agents have an old saying, “If I can smell it, I can’t sell it.”  Pet smells, musty odor’s, etc will kill a sale everytime.
• White is not a Color.  But, paint is your friend.  Every room should have a fresh coat of paint in a warm, neutral color.
• A Spot of Color.  Everyone loves flowers.  Place pots with colorful annual flowers by the front door or plant seasonal color in the beds to make your home inviting and memorable.
• Househunting Begins on the Internet.  If your property is not exposed on the internet, your chances of a buyer finding you are very small.  Tip the odds in your favor by advertising your home on the MLS and all the major search engines for real estate.  InfoTube also offers FREE property listings on its website.   Also, make sure your listing includes at least 10 good photo’s of the interior and exterior of your home.  If possible, also include a video tour of the house and neighborhood.
• Forget About Comp’s and Sold Properties.  Study your competition, which means homes currently For Sale.  If your home is priced too high when compared to your competition, it is going to sit for a long, long time.

Homeowners should please keep in mind that Buyers have a lot of choices.  The homeowner who can make their house stand out among the vast inventory of “For Sale” signs will the one who wins the selling game.

Thank you for visiting Why6Percent.com,, your do-it-yourself home selling source.   We can bring buyer’s to your door.  Check out our website to see how we’ve helped thousands of home sellers.

Fall is a marvelous time of year.  The air is crisp.  The leaves are falling.  Our favorite holidays are approaching.  And, everyone is ready to nest in for the winter.   It is an excellent time for buying and selling real estate, if you know how to make the most of the season. 

We have 5 Tips for Anyone Selling Property during the Fall.  If you interested in some easy, great idea’s and photographs…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.

Thank you for visiting Why6Percent.com.  Our MLS package reaches millions of buyers and buyer agents with the click of a mouse.  If you aren’t familiar with this powerful home selling tool, visit our website today!!! 

What can you Learn from Foresight vs Hindsight this Year?

1. To make the most money in 2010…Get your house clean, cleaned out, staged and priced to sell NOW.
2. Do not wait until Spring is here to put your home on the market.  Do it NOW!
3. 90 percent of all home buyers shop on the internet, not newspapers, local or otherwise.  If you aren’t marketing your property on all major websites for real estate, buyers will not find your home.  There are simply too many homes for sale and buyer’s will not any waste time ferretting out information or for obscurely advertised property.
4. Use photographs and video’s to show and sell your home.   Add in video or snapshots of the neighborhood, nearby shopping, parks or attractions.   Pictures, and especially video, create interest and a glimpse of lifestyle that buyers crave.
5. Sell it yourself, but enlist the help of buyers agents.  Buyer’s agents use the MLS to find property for their clients.  Advertise on the MLS and offer up some commission to them, if they bring you their buyers!  Bonus: If you list your home on the MLS, it will immediately stop all annoying listing calls, too.

Why 6 Percent is in the business of helping sellers market their homes on every major real estate website, search engine and the MLS with one click of your mouse.  Visit our website or phone 1-800-381-9496 for details.  We can put your property in front of millions of home buyers within 24 hours.  Don’t delay.  Act Today!!

Making your home attractive and memorable to home buyers is critical if you want to sell your home.  There are a number of proven methods to attract buyer’s through your door, but the Top 3 offer the biggest payoff.

Top 3 Ways to Attract Buyers to Your Home

1. The Internet.  The internet is the single most powerful tool available for home sales.  If you want the maximum exposure, get your home listed in the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) database.   Secondly, take full advantage of all social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
2. Professional Fliers.  Make a nice flyer or brochure that you can place inside an InfoTube or InfoBox that is attached to your For Sale sign.  In addition, you can pass them out to prospective buyers and open houses.  InfoTube.net offers a Free online service that can help you create and print professional, full colored flyers about your home.
3. Giveaways and Incentives.  Everyone loves FREE.  Adding an incentive to your offer can generate interest and make your home stand out from your competition.  Some of the most popular incentive  items are home theatre’s, new appliances, club memberships, pool table, hot tub, free travel vouchers, seller paid closing costs.

Thank you for visiting Why6Percent.com.  We have helped thousands of home sellers find the perfect buyer.  We can help you, too. 

For the next few weeks, I will be providing Essential Tips for Preparing Your Home for a Fast, Top Dollar Sale.   Please check back with us each day, or click on our RSS feed below, to receive great idea’s to maximize this spring home selling season. 

Sell Fast and For Top Dollar Tip #1

#1 – Stage Your Home Before You Take Pictures for the Internet.

• 90 Percent of Home Buyers shop on the internet, so it is imperitive that your pictures look great to entice people into wanting to see the home in person.

Other Articles of Interest about Using Photographs Effectively are:

How to Take Great Pictures that Help Your Home Sell 

Use “In Season” Photographs on Your Home Listing

Examples of good Home for Sale Pictures

Proof that Internet Photo’s Sell Houses

It’s Spring.  Freshen Up your Photographs

Bad Examples of Home for Sale Pictures

Thank you for visiting Why6Percent.com.  We can place your home listing on the local MLS and dozens of major real estate websites such as Realtor.com for $399.  

Call us today at 1-800-381-9496 to place your Home for Sale Listing in front of 12 million home shoppers each month.

Timing is Everything, when attempting to catch a fish in your mouth or selling a home.  Home Seller’s take note.  Several factors have converged to make this the TIME to Sell! 

Spring is here.  Tax incentives, low interest rates and deep discounts on home prices have buyer’s jumping off the fence to buy a home.   The question is “Are You Doing What it Takes to Sell a home in this Market?”.

Learn the 4 Mistakes That Prevent Home Sales

#4:  Not Using Effective Marketing and Advertising.   Simply put, people can not buy your home if they don’t know it is for sale.   Forget print advertising. 95 percent of home buyer’s shop on the internet, so you have to maximize its power.  Use a lot of photographs to showcase your home, buyers love photo’s more than anything else when they shop for a home.   Video tours are also great sales tools that expose your property to a whole new audience. 

#3:  Trouble Making Appointments to Show:  When a seller has trouble making his home accessible for showings, it is very likely that the buyer will move on to the next house and never look back.  It is imperitive that your home is available to be shown in a moments notice.  There are simply too many homes on the market for buyer’s to choose from.  They are ready to buy now, they will not wait on you.

#2:  Home is Not in “For Sale” Condition:  As a rule, buyer’s form a first impression about a house in 60 seconds.  If your home doesn’t appear neat, clean and cared for, buyers will walk.   And, if you have an interested buyer, don’t forget that will insist on a home inspection.  Fix problems and address delayed maintanence issues or risk stopping your sale in its tracks. 

#1:  Incorrectly Pricing Your Home:  If your home is overpriced, you will drive away buyer’s.  A high inventory of unsold homes means that buyer’s have plenty of choices.   And, the internet allows buyer’s to see what people paid for houses similar to yours.  Most buyers instantly know when a piece of real estate priced incorrectly.  If yours is, buyer’s will simply refuse to look at it, at all.

To Learn More About How to Capitalize on the Busy Selling Season by reading these articles:
How to Find a Buyer for Your Home
The Most Effective Way to Advertise Your Home for Sale. Proof that Photo’s Sell Homes   Use a Real Estate Video to Sell Your Home     Tough Talk About Pricing Your Home    What Home Repairs will a Buyer Expect You to Fix            10 Repairs that Seller’s MUST Make

Thank you for visiting Why6Percent.com.  We have helped thousands of home seller’s market their homes successfully and we can help you, too.   Our real estate marketing program places your home in front of 10 million home shoppers each and every month. 

If you are one of the thousands of people trying to sell a home, you need to know what kind of marketing and advertising pays off and what does not.    To better concentrate your advertising and marketing efforts, learn which strategies work and which aren’t worth the effort.

Proven Methods to Market Your Home. 

1. The Local MLS:  The #1 place to advertise your home listing for the maximum exposure is the MLS.  Every real estate agent uses the MLS exclusively to locate property for prospective buyers.  And, over 60 percent of individual home buyers found the home they purchased through public access MLS websites.

2. The Internet:  If you are putting money into newspaper advertising or home buyer guides, you would be much better off spending the money for online advertising.  Only 3 percent of all buyers found their home through traditional print advertising.  90 percent of buyers located their home on the internet. (Curb appeal still counts.  77 percent of buyers drive by or view the home in person)

3. Website Features:  Homebuyers overwhelming reported that photographs (86 percent) and detailed information (84 percent) were the most important and useful website features.   Video or virtual tours (offered on InfoTube.net) are also popular with 68 percent of home buyers.   When it comes to photo’s it seems the more you have the better.   Studies show that having 16 photo’s instead of 15 resulted in 33 percent more page views.  20 photo’s were the optimum number for maximum exposure, which happens to be the number of photo’s offered on InfoTube.net.

4. Yard Sign with an InfoTube or InfoBox:  One of the best ways to advertise your property is clearly low tech.   15 percent of all buyers reported that they found their home by seeing a yard sign.  And, it seems that all buyers love the convenience of driving by and picking up a brochure to learn more about the house.  A whopping 90 percent of buyers are angry or upset if they find an empty InfoTube or InfoBox.

If you need to sell a home, it is vitally important to advertise the property where they buyers are.  Don’t sell yourself short.  Experience and Research prove that the MLS, the internet and yard signs, with stuffed InfoTubes and InfoBoxes, pay off for the professional real estate agent and for sale by owner, alike.

Thank you for visiting Why6percent.com.  We will List your Home on the MLS for $399 and you also receive a Free Featured Home Listing on InfoTube.net , with all features that buyers are looking for.   If you need to sell your home, we have you covered.  Call us today at 1-800-381-9496.

Home video tours are a fantastic marketing tool for home sales.  Why?  Because of the viral nature of the internet and because video’s are more likely to make your property show up in search engine results. 

If you aren’t using video in your marketing plan, you are selling yourself short.  Grab your digital camera and start shooting.   We recommend that you keep your video under 2 minutes, which is plenty of time to cram in a lot of info, while maintaining viewer interest.

Do you need another great reason to upload a video today?  How about, It’s Free.  As a Why 6 Percent customer, home video tours are provided FREE of charge as a part of your InfoTube.net Featured Home Ad. 

Given the slowdown in home sales, it often takes more than 130 days or 4 months to sell a property.   If your home has been on the market, as the season’s have changed, now is time to update your marketing material.  Good news is it is free, quick and easy to do.

First, if you are using photo’s of your home that were taken during spring or summer, you should immediately replace them with a current picture.   As we are all aware, little compares to the marketing power of a picture to attract or turn off a home shopper.  And, nothing screams STALE listing like an old photo taken out of season.

You can leave the summer photograph of a swimming pool, flower beds or other feature’s about your home that show off the beauty or quality of life in other seasons.   But, change the captions to reflect the fact that the pictures remain to fully illustrate all ammenities your home offers.  For a swimming pool caption example, consider changing your caption to read something like “Summer fun and Poolside entertaining 2009″.

Changing photographs in your InfoTube.net home listing is quick and easy.  Just log in to the homepage with your user name and password.  Edit your ad and upload the new photo’s.  Then, Save and you are done.

To update your MLS listing photo’s, send the new pictures, along with your request, in an email to your listing broker.  They will handle the changes for you.

Don’t sell yourself short with an old photo that sticks out like a sore thumb.  Out of season photo’s simply mean that your house has been on the market for months and you don’t care who knows.

Update those photograph’s today and make your listing look brand new.