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How to Create a Virtual Walkthrough of Your Rental

Roosevelt Renters Looking at Online Apartment ToursAmong the most significant tools in your landlord toolbox is the virtual walkthrough. A virtual walkthrough, or virtual tour, is a 3D video tour of your property, primarily designed to be viewed online. It is more interactive than a video, allowing viewers to go through the rooms at any angle. There are several relevant reasons to offer virtual walkthroughs of your property, from leasing to clients at a distance to lessening the number of casual visitors you get each time you start advertising for new tenants.

To create a suitable and alluring virtual walkthrough of your Roosevelt rental property, you’ll need not only to use an excellent quality virtual tour software program but, on top of that, to do a few property preparations. By simply applying various simple and hassle-free steps, you can create a virtual walkthrough of your Roosevelt rental that will absolutely help make finding a new tenant almost effortless and more efficient.

Stage Your Property

Despite that the action of filming your virtual walkthrough isn’t hard to do at all, there is some planning you need to do in advance. Cleaning and staging the property – just as you would usually do before having professional photos taken – is a very significant first step. If you want to do any repairs, painting, or landscaping clean-up, these tasks should be completed before you do the virtual walkthrough. If there are any personal items, furniture, or décor in the home, it will be really enticing if you do quite a bit of staging. Remove clutter from all visible spaces, and consider moving any extra items off-site until after your filming is actually done. Much like a showing, you aspire for your property to look its best!

Plan Your Tour

The next step to creating a virtual walkthrough of your Roosevelt property is to plan out how you want to film your rental. Filming the walkthrough is clearly more than walking through the rooms. You will want to plan out your angles, lighting, and viewpoints for each part. It will contribute greatly to use a diagram of your rental’s floor plan this operation. Or, you could just easily mark the floor with tape, so you are sure where to stand for the best vantage points in each room. It’s similarly important to do some test filming with your camera or smartphone at different heights given the fact that the lighting may change depending on the lens’s angle.

Choose Virtual Tour Software

Another very important step in creating a virtual walkthrough of your rental home is to choose a good quality virtual tour app or software program. There are plenty of different kinds of virtual tour software programs available, some of which offer free trials or discounted pricing. If you’re planning ahead of time to make virtual walkthroughs for multiple properties, it may be worth paying a bit more for better quality or a more user-friendly app. But, for sure, a lot of software programs in this category will create an interactive, 3D film of your Roosevelt property that you can then share with prospective tenants.

Shoot and Share!

Before you actually start shooting your virtual walkthrough, arrange the home beautifully by moving unnecessary items out of sight, turning on all the lights, and opening all of the doors and the blinds. You should, furthermore, make it a point that no one else is in the home at the time to eliminate distractions or interruptions. Then, following your plan, film your property. The software or app should let you re-shoot any areas that you may find blurry or choppy, however, do your best to keep the camera as steady as you can in each room. You will then, for sure, have a virtual walkthrough that is ready to share with your prospective tenants in short order.

 

Even though the process of creating a virtual walkthrough of your Roosevelt rental properties is reasonably easy and almost effortless, it does take time and some skill with the required technology. If in actuality, that doesn’t sound like you at all, a different possibility may be to have someone else do it for you. One of the great things about hiring Real Property Management Uintah is that we create virtual walkthroughs for you! Contact us today to find out more.

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