02/22/2024
Hey all👋,
I’d like to introduce myself.
My name is Sanford Newvine, born and raised in Canton NY, and I now live in Winthrop with my family 👨👩👦👦.
Before I moved to Winthrop, I owned a house🏡 in Potsdam and as I put an offer 💴 down for my current house, I soon had to figure out how I was going to sell my Potsdam house.
We cleaned and staged it very nicely, took many good pictures 📷 of the house and listed it with a local real estate agency. The market was hot 🔥 back in 2021 so a lot of people wanted to see it. Nearly 50‼️showings and a couple fall through offers later, it was the end of the real estate season and we had already moved into our new home in Winthrop.
We had no choice but to take it off the market and use the Potsdam house as a rental.
Each showing was a disruption to our lives because not only did we have to find a place to go for an hour or two, but we also had to blitz clean 🧼🧽 the house in the hours leading up to the showing. Luckily, it was summer ☀️ and there were ample things to do in the north country, but after 50 showings it was starting to wear on us (especially with a newborn baby added to the mix)😴.
I had this virtual tour idea💡around that time, but decided not to do anything with it because life was pretty busy.
Over this winter season I was laid off from work😢— which was a real perspective change for me—but it also gave me the opportunity to explore what I could do with this idea I’ve put on the shelf in my brain🧠.
I firmly believe that virtual tours can save clients the most important resource in their life—time⏰. When I was selling my Potsdam house, I felt like that summer was wasted with house showings.
Real estate agents may relate to this as well as they are the ones showing houses on the weekends at all hours away from their family and friends 👨👩👧👧.
ENTER virtual tours🎉—you can walk through the house just like a showing. With this resource, you will see higher turnover because it will attract the truly serious buyers💰.
I hope to continue to do business with real estate agents and private sale owners this coming spring and summer and helping you get your property SOLD🫱🏽🫲🏾.
Pic credit: Julia Kia Photography