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Spent $300 on a virtual staging service and got zero showings
Paid a company to virtually stage all my listing photos for a condo in Austin. Looked great online but not a single buyer booked a tour in 2 weeks. Anyone else find that buyers just ignore virtual staging and want to see empty rooms?
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faith2711d ago
That $300 probably would've been better spent on a small price drop or a weekend open house with some free snacks. I've noticed people are skeptical of anything that looks too perfect these days, like when a restaurant's menu photos look way better than the actual food.
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bell.jessica11d ago
Two weeks seems like a short test to already be calling it a total loss. Maybe the issue is more about price or location than some fake furniture in the photos. Virtual staging can't fix a bad listing, it just makes the empty rooms look less sad.
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ben_fisher11d ago
The whole debate about virtual staging really misses the main point, @bell.jessica. You're right that a bad listing is still a bad listing even with fancy furniture photoshopped in. I've seen properties sit for months with perfect virtual staging but the price was just too high for the area. Two weeks is nothing in this market, especially if the listing just went up without any price cuts or open houses yet. People scroll past overpriced homes no matter how good the pictures look. The real test is whether the price matches what the location and condition actually offer, not some fake couch that disappears when they walk in the door.
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