6410 Aberdeen worked
6410 Aberdeen
My brother’s house has not been sold yet, but his website for it has definitely worked out already.
We’re tracking the visitors using Performancing’s service, and we’ve been able to determine a few things about the Web site. First of all, it serves as a very good filter for all interested parties. Peter put an ad in one of the local flyers, which gave us about 40 hits to the Web site (for that day). Out of those 40 hits, they received 3 or 4 phone calls, and a few appointments to see the home. The one’s that did call, and made appointments, also saw the site and said they really liked it.
This, potentially, saved Peter the aggravation of receiving a few dozen phone calls and answering a ton of questions about the home. The web site provides very quick, easy access to most of the information about the home. Its location, price, size (even by room), and photos are readily available without ever needing to pick up the phone. Nothing is hidden.
Another thing that we should end up learning over the next few days, is if the web site reduces false positives. Since the site has fairly large, good quality photos of each room, no one should be surprised at what they see during their tour of the home. So, anyone that is coming to see the house should be fairly close to being an actual “sale”. It should be interesting to see how it all plays out in the end.
[tags]home, house, for sale, website, real estate, experiment[/tags]
May 11th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
I figured it would work out good.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I may be abit one sided on this subject, but I think the web site’s awsome. So far It does seem to be doing it job. I will give a report on the overall triumph of this venture.
May 12th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
My question now is what happens to the domain and site when the house is sold? Is the website included in the sale?
That would be pretty neat, buy a house and get a blog, domain and hosting as well. Interesting…
May 12th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
I wouldn’t know what to do with it. Wouldn’t they be suprised when they got a bill in the mail for renewal.
May 13th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Who’s foot is that?
May 13th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Michael: It is mine, though I’m afraid to ask why you’d wanna know.
May 14th, 2006 at 12:35 am
It’s just a really strange picture of a foot. Though I could always ask the question as to why your foot is in the picture.
May 15th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Because when I took the picture, my foot was in frame.
May 15th, 2006 at 11:51 am
That is a very cool idea. I imagine someone could make a business out of this. Making websites for people wanting to sell their home.
and congrats on it actually showing promise =)