Imagine this—your property went “Active” in the MLS last night. It’s 4:30 pm on the first full day on-market, and you’re sitting at your dining room table with your REALTOR® who has just set two signed offers in front of you—one set to close in a month, the other for over asking price! It’s the dream of every home seller, but it doesn't have to be a pipe dream.

To fix up your house before listing it or sell it as is. It’s an age old debate for a reason—the answer is complicated and case-specific. It depends on multiple factors, including your personal reasons for listing and the features of the real estate market you’ll be entering. For clarity’s sake, selling your home “as is” means that you have decided not to make any further repairs once it's on the market. This kind of listing means that, regardless of a home inspection’s results, your prospective homebuyer would be buying the home in its current condition.

At a time when 55% of modern home-buyers say that going online was their first step in the house-hunting process, it's clear that the days of realtors toting around shoeboxes full of listings are over. But, what kind of tools exist nowadays to assist the tech-saavy, or even the tech-newbie, in landing the perfect property? Allow us to elaborate.

WITH every mobile phone packing more megapixels of photographic technology than an entire array of camera equipment a decade ago, some might begin to question why professional photographers still exist. But ironically, the more pictures there are being taken, the better one has to be to stand out and grab a buyer’s attention.