more are piled everywhere. Rooms are stuffed to the gills with personal belongings. This is a considerable obstacle to getting a good offer or any offer at all. Sellers may also have several children, which can present difficulty in always maintaining a clean, show-ready home. In the past, a vacant, home insinuated that the seller was motivated due to foreclosure or other factors. Because of our recent hyper-active seller's market, it has not been unusual for sellers to move out and vacate the home to update it, stage it (virtually or otherwise), and make the home show almost as a model or brand new home. For those sellers who had a place to stay temporarily with friends or family, this has resulted in quicker sales and higher prices. It has also allowed the sellers to possibly now make all-cash, non-contingent offers for their new home to beat out other multiple offer situations. Time on the market is now a better barometer as to whether a vacant home equals a motivated seller.
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Statistics show that over 98% of homebuyers first found the home they ended up buying on the internet. Whether it was a search they created on popular portals such as Zillow, Realtor.com, Trulia, Redfin, or thousands of other sites or a search their Realtor created for them directly from the MLS. The one main factor is they all came pretty much from one source... the MLS (unless it was a FSBO - For Sale By Owner property). Based on that it just makes sense to take and display the highest quality pictures possible so that the first impression gets buyers interested in going to the next step of actually touring the home. While today's cameras are capable of taking beautiful pictures, there is still going to be a great disparity between the pictures we
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