Video tours. Tips on how to advertise your rental during pandemic

[Fedor Volkov]

Hi BP community, 

In light of the covid-crisis and many states having a shelter-in-place order, what are your strategies to keep your rental leads coming? Those of you who have tried virtual tours, recording a video walkthrough of your properties - what are the apps you've been using? Any tips you could share? Are these steps even helpful, have you seen a higher interest in your rentals after posting videos? 

Zillow has a virtual tour app that apparently can help recording the video tour + I was also thinking of just recording a video myself and sharing with prospective tenants.

I have a vacant 3bed/3bath in Chicago but the city is locked with a shelter-in-place order. I'm still getting some leads from Zillow, but it's been slow for a well-known reason. 

Tips will be highly appreciated. 

Thank you and stay safe out there

[Crystal Smith]

Originally posted by @Fedor Volkov:

Hi BP community, 

In light of the covid-crisis and many states having a shelter-in-place order, what are your strategies to keep your rental leads coming? Those of you who have tried virtual tours, recording a video walkthrough of your properties - what are the apps you've been using? Any tips you could share? Are these steps even helpful, have you seen a higher interest in your rentals after posting videos? 

Zillow has a virtual tour app that apparently can help recording the video tour + I was also thinking of just recording a video myself and sharing with prospective tenants.

I have a vacant 3bed/3bath in Chicago but the city is locked with a shelter-in-place order. I'm still getting some leads from Zillow, but it's been slow for a well-known reason. 

Tips will be highly appreciated. 

Thank you and stay safe out there

We're still getting tons of calls for rentals and because the shelter-in-place order doesn't apply to Real Estate Transactions we've been providing video tours to our clients. No special Apps required. We video tour the property and provide a link to the tour for the client to review. It works. We've even had owners and other agents send us video tours which we share with the clients. The most effective tours provide some comments on the property as someone is walking through, but we've also had success with no comments just video of the property.