Wednesday, 6th of January 2010 at 09:06:25 AMI’ve sat on the ARMLS committee going on 3 years now, I’m not the most seasoned member, but I do know that the rule most violated by the members of the ARMLS is the photo rule. This rule states that all residential resale properties will have at least one photo and that at least one photo will be the front exterior of the home within 48 hours of the listing going live.
I’m not the ARMLS police, I don’t go looking for violations (trust me it would be easy to find them if I was looking for them). When I run across a violation, I will sometimes ask the agent to fix it or I will report it and the photo happens to be one that I find quite a bit.
Here is the one I recently found:
Okay, I can understand that if I’m the owner, I would like the most up to date photos out there as possible, but how long should the the buyer wait? In this case over 35 days! If the remodel is that extensive, you should really hold off on listing it until it is done. The system will allow the listing agent to update the photos (or add photos) as much or often as they want. So I’m really trying to understand why there aren’t photos out there. When a potential buyer is looking at listings on-line, they will often pass these up because there is nothing to see.
If you are selling your home, ask your agent to send you a link to the listing so you can review and check what is out there. Most definitely make sure there are photos out there.
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One slight correction Craig. It is 4 days to post the exterior photo unless you have written instructions from the owner not to post an exterior photo.
Paul is correct, the rules allow a 4 day grace period or if the owner has given written instructions on not posting any photos. My rant should have been more directed toward as a listing agent you really should work on providing acurate and quick photos to help sell the property, the real purpose of listing the property.
So often agents under estimate or just do not recognize the impact and the power behind good quality photos and how that translates to quality traffic. Whether it is for a rental or a property for sale; in this age of technology and the use of the internet for initial searches, it can mean the difference of a sale or no sale…
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