Alpharetta Real Estate Homes for Sale

We’re going video, baby!

I’ve enjoyed writing this blog for the last sixteen months.  I’ve learned a lot and I appreciate the nice notes from so many of you saying that you appreciate the value this blog has given you when making decisions related to real estate in Alpharetta.

Just the other day, I had a note from a reader in Texas who put it succintly:  She said that real estate statistics were easy to find.  Analysis, opinion and insight were things she had not been able to find.

Those commodities are what this blog aims to deliver and in that spirit, we are taking it to the next level in 2008.  MORE value in 2008 is our charge.

I will continue to write this blog because I believe in the value of the written word.  However, we are adding narrated online video tours.  The key word being ‘Narrated.’  My opinion, based on the reception we have received from this blog is that readers want MORE opinion, not less, even if they disagree.  At least we’ve then had the opportunity to explore the issues.

I’ve spent the past three days learning as much as I could about posting video to the web and a blog, and hunting for examples of how other real estate professionals are doing this.  I haven’t found anyone who is actually narrating home tours as they shoot them.  All I’ve found is glorified virtual tours posted to YouTube.  These are nothing but a bunch of still photographs with transitions set to music.  I want to give the viewed actual play by play, as if we were actually together walking through the house.

Without further ado, here is the first of our video tours (as opposed to virtual tours ;->).  I pray it will be the first of many to come.  Please, by all means, let me know what you think of this video and how we can modify it to make it better.