What happened to my comments?

I'm sorry but if I'd wanted to be in film, I'd gone into acting and moved to Hollywood!

You mean I need to repost my call out to Hollywood? OK - I will do that for them.

Todd

Hollywood, I am here and for hire! I won't be a spoiled party pooper like the ones you have now. I will only charge your 2 million per movie. I don't need 40 different meals everyday. Just 3 meals a day and you can even pick them for me.

I can drive myself to the set, no limo required and all I need on the set is an air conditioned trailer. A 1976 RV will do, nothing fancy. I can even use the out houses the rest of the crew uses.

I won't complain about conditions and I really won't mind doing re takes, especially having to re-due love sceens with any of the present Hollywood actresses. I can do those re-takes all day long without complaint!

So if Hollywoood is out there and looking for a new face for your movies. I can be reached at 503-524-9494, also if you want to get out of Hollywood and move to Oregon, I can also help you with that.

Todd Clark - ACTOR and Broker!

(503)524-9494

How many times has the future been accurately predicted by anyone?  Hardly ever.  I don't believe 95% of what I read about the future.  Those writers don't know any more than you do what will happen or what will be in use.  Will it be a passing fad?  Will it attract serious buyers?  Who knows?  So don't worry about it.  Just do your own thing.

As I offer more technology I feel higher commissions are in order. You get waht you pay for, right? Discount brokerage and the latest in technology and marketing should not go together.

By the way Lucia, you certainly have the movie star good looks! You should never discount your fees...charge extra!

So the article says that sellers and buyers are going to get "weird" on us? Can we just do a docudrama or a 20/20 and call it good?

One really good thing can possibly come out of this, maybe with an acting coach agents will be able to pronounce "realtor" right. It could happen.

Oh, no, Mike might want to dress up as spiderman for his shoots.

Todd, you better check with your wife first, mr big stuff.

I think that narrated video tours of homes will be the next big thing in real estate. It will differentiate agents and add value to the transaction with no need to discount your services.

I agree, narrated videos are the way to go. If you look overt the years first there were only still pictures, then came the virtual tours. How can you not think narrated videos are next to come. Great post, Thanks.

Howard, you must not be seeing the same lame local commercials I get. I hope that if agents do this narration themselves, they will be careful as not to be too cheesy-or they WILL have to discount their services. We use to have a big Ford dealership commercial, but the owner put on his superman suit and made cheesy commercials. He was popular, but probably sold more cheese. lol

I totally agree with Mark Cohen, I am still waiting to look up and see flying vehicles.... can you imagine? We can just fly from property to property and make movies on the way to the home and back…..awesome marketing!

I think that the narrated video tours are ok, and some I have seen are impressive, but I think they are better at marketing the realtor than marketing the property.  The best of them are branded in some way, which means that they can't have the wide distribution that something going out via IDX does - so the property marketing results would be limited to just the traffic coming to the agent's site.  It is probably too expensive to make two versions - branded and non branded because they are a time and production job.  The agent would have to do their own production to make it "cost effective" but then where will they get the time for this - which goes back to Lucia's original point.

The web RE videos I have seen are production rich but video quality poor.  Better stills show the property off nicer, I think.  

Dang!  And here I thought all I had to do was sit at the counter of the local malt shoppe!  Heavy sigh.

OK - I have to let everyone know, That about an hour after posting my comments that I got really excited. I got a call on my cell from a Southern California cell phone! I was thinking I needed to get new head shots done and maybe a haircut! But, here was my shot!

It was good news they were looking at one of my commercial listings here in Oregon, but I was really hoping it was a 2 million dollar check for a movie roll. - How disappointing! Thanks for the laugh everyone.

Yep, I'm ready.  :)

Lucia has the look for movies! Right?