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If you are a Woodlands home owner getting ready to put your home on the market, use a Realtor who uses SMARTePLANS to give yourself every market advantage. Below is a side-by-side comparision of the First Floor between a typical floor plan (like those used by builders) and a SMARTePLAN. Which one do you think is going to showcase your property better to potential buyers?
Like many master planned communities, The Woodlands has floor plans on file from their builders. These are available to real estate agents for use when the home is subsequently re-sold. None of these will ever showcase your properties to potential buyers like a custom created SMARTePLAN.
Compare the two drawings of the first floor side-by-side. Do you think buyers are interested in THE PROPERTY and what it looks like --- not just how the rooms are laid out in the house? It's the same house... it took me about 45 minutes to erase all the SMARTePLAN features that make SMARTePLANS unique and different from every other floor plan you've ever seen... to get down to that typical and non-remarkable floor plan graphic.
That should be a good clue --- if it takes me almost 45 minutes to ERASE FEATURES from the SMARTePLAN and dumb-it-down to make it look like an off-the-shelf floor plan builders used --- what sort of representation are you getting if that is what your agent uses? And if your real estate agent uses a copy of the floor plan from when the property was built, how will the features and finishes upgraded since that time be adequately represented to buyers?
The patented SMARTePLAN marketing system is designed to make your home STAND OUT ... it differentiates your property from other Woodlands homes on the market right away, because it shows the whole property! It ALSO highlights the features and finishes IN YOUR HOME with easy-to-understand pictographic images linked to detailed and descriptive annotations. Vaulted ceilings, doorway casings, window moldings, the pattern of inlaid floors, under-counter pull-out shelves, the INSIDE of closets --- It shows the nitty-gritty detail that buyers WANT to see!!
SMARTePLANs are patented online floor plan pictorials that upload onto MLS and become part of the property information available to potential buyers on the MLS 24/7. The detailed pictorial with 14 embedded photographs showcases your property's features and finishes to interested buyers ... and for 8 years in a row.. have helped sell homes faster (less Days on Market) and for a higher price (Over 20% sold above list price in 2011).
Executives routinely transfer in and out of The Woodlands. In-bound ones are on our MLS months before they transfer, reviewing properties and studying those with SMARTePLANS. Photos launch out of the drawing with a click of a mouse and detailed text descriptions are linked to each photo as it launches ---- NOW the photos make sense because they are viewed in relationship to the drawing --- instead of looking at a string of disconnected and random photographs. Properties marketed with SMARTePLANS ALWAYS make their short list ... before they ever get to The Woodlands, they KNOW these are the properties they want to see.
Ask Michele Scheffer, an agent with Greenwood King who sold a home in West U for $1M+ to a man in London who bought the home before he ever saw it in person ... via the SMARTePLAN. You can read about that here and also see the same floor plan that prompted this man to make his buying decision from London.
SMARTePLANS are PDF files that enlarge to 6400%, so no detail is too small.
If you are getting ready to put your Woodlands home on the market ... give yourself every edge, every advantage. Discuss this with your potential listing agent. Each agent decides what tools they use to market your property, and they pay for those tools --- this is not a cost to the home seller. When it comes time for you to choose a listing agent, choose a listing agent who uses SMARTePLANS to market their properties -- and ensure your property gets every marketing advantage it needs. The cost to your agent? It is fifteen cents per sq ft. For a 3000 sq ft home, you take 3000 x .15 = $450 base rate; options may be added if desired.
You can see samples of homes for sale currently on our MLS in all price ranges at www.smarteplans.com See how other home owners have elected to have this powerful marketing tool work for them.
Thanks for Stopping By,
Judith, The Floor Plan Lady
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SMARTePLANS® have photos embedded inside the floor plan that launch with a mouse click .... each photo arrow is positioned in the plan where the photographer was standing --- so you can see where he was and what he was aiming at when he took the shot ... in relationship to the drawing. Beneath the photo is a description of that room. Once the photo launches you have a choice to link back to the floor plan and choose another photo, or read the amenities text for the WHOLE property (not just that particular room). All the files are inter-linked so you can seamlessly click around this property, viewing the photos and reading the descriptions. This is not a video ... you choose what you want to view ... or not. You can see samples at www.smarteplans.com
[NOTE: SMARTePLANS® are PDF files so they magnify to over 100%. When the file launches, click "View" on the top toolbar and make sure there is a checkmark next to the toolbar named "Select and Zoom". Every time you tap the plus key inside the circle the view screen enlarges (the minus key shrinks the magnification); and the magnifying glass with the plus sign in it marquee selects a specfic area of the drawings to be enlarged. Using the hand key and the scroll bars, its easy to move around inside the file, and then magnifying the features you want to see.]
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The compilation above is the original creative work and copyrighted property of SMARTePLANS. You may link to it; but it may not be copied, nor reproduced in any form or format in whole or in part without the express written permission of Judith Sinnard.
