Kathi Presutti’s advice

Kathi Presutti visited Preview Properties.com on Thursday to share some tips on taking better MLS photos. She suggested we “consider our photos our first showings.” Here are a few more tips she provided:

• Make sure you put captions on vacant room photos (EX: “living room”, “2nd bedroom”).
• Remove family photos and other clutter.
• No seasonal decor.
• Switch out several small art pieces with one large piece.
• Turn off the TV.
• Take magnets, etc. off the refrigerator.
• Remove dishes from the sink and any rags, towels on the counters.
• Put the toilet seat down.
• Remove toothbrushes from the bathroom countertops.
• Make sure the blinds are level with each other if multiple windows show in photo.
• Watch the weather report. Sometimes sunny days aren’t the best for interior photos.
• 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. generally a good time to take photos, but so is dawn and dusk (“golden hour”)
• Take photos from corners of rooms so viewer can see two walls in photo.
• Try taking photos from low angles (or high angles).
• Use a wide angle lense, not a fisheye lense.

Session on how to make your MLS photos look better

The good, the bad and the ugly. Could any of these photos be your listings? Kathi Presutti of ReStyle Staging found these photos being used by Realtors – in our market – while she was preparing for our training session. She has many more to share with us.

She will spend approximately 45 minutes with us on Thursday, giving us very practical tips on how we – or our photographers – can make our MLS photos look better. Things we can do TODAY to improve the marketability of our listings.

It should be a lot of fun. I encourage you – and your photographer – to attend.