Want Pretty Pictues to Sell Your House? Hire a Pro.

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That’s a good-looking picture to the right, isn’t it? Of course it is: It was taken by a pro, Nick Springett (www.nickspringett.com), which is the point of this story in today’s LATimes: if you want beautiful photos to help sell your home, it helps if your listing agent hires a professional photographer.

Rates start at $350 and climb from there. Yes, you can click over to Best Buy or Sammy’s and get a great camera, but that doesn’t make you a great photographer. ‘Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photograher,’ says Everett Fenton Gidley (www.efg3.com/). ‘It makes you a Nikon owner.’

If you insist on taking your own pictures, read the Times story first. Among other things, it will tell you to stage your house first -- that means de-clutter, hide your personal photographs, and add some color to that all-white room you are so proud of.

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Photo Credit: Nick Springett