Tally Tours

Choosing Virtual Tours
Virtual Tours come in four types: Basic, Standard, Deluxe, and Premium. If you are unsure about what to order, it's a good idea to start with a Standard for an average sized home. If you are listing a town-home, apartment, or just want to try a virtual tour at a lower cost, a Basic Tour is the way to go. Virtual Tours are rich in features and functionality. They give buyers a chance to experience and interact with your listing as if they were actually there.

Choosing Photo Tours
Photo Tours cost less than Virtual Tours and come in two types: Full Service and Self Service.  A full service photo tour covers your entire listing no matter the size. We shoot your photos, digtially enhance them, and create the photo tour for you. Self Service means we create a photo tour from images that you take and send to us. A Photo Tours is a simple, full screen viewable, slide-show of high definition photos. It lacks the extensive features of a virtual tour, but it makes up for it in simple elegance.

• Within 3 days you will receive an email with your tour and still photos.

Preparing your home for a Virtual Tour

Step 1: Un-clutter
This is the first and most important part of the process. It's also the hardest. All those family pictures of babies, weddings, and high school dances on your fridge are nice to show friends and family, but these types of things often look like clutter to home buyers. Un-cluttering your home will make it appear cleaner, more inviting & open. Most importantly, this will open up the buyers imagination to what they can do with the space. This flow of ideas for the buyers will keep your home on their mind. You help create this “buyers spark” with a minimal but functional use of space. However, you don't want it to look awkwardly bare.
Get out boxes and trash bags. Pack away excess nick naks, anything that doesn't fit neatly on shelves, counters, etc... Consider a garage sale or giving items to charity. You don't need to leave shelves bare, but you do need to organize what's on them. A picture frame, neutral books (meaning books that won’t offend anyone), nice artwork, maybe some plants… these types of things should do the trick. Remember, If your are not using it, consider packing it away.
Also, it's important to mention that the less clutter the camera sees, the higher quality and sharp the images will be once they are online. Clutter is the #1 reason why some tours have higher quality images than others.

Step 2: Fix-up
You don't want buyers thinking about fixing and replacing things the first time they step into your home. Replace all light bulbs and broken or missing fixtures such as outlet covers. Replace or clean your dirty old shower curtains. Inspect every room in your home. Make a list and replace or fix anything that needs it. If your on a budget, make a budget and fix what you can.

Step 3: Vacuum, Sweep, Dust, Mop & Clean
A little dust usually doesn't show up in a tour. However, it helps tremendously for showing your home, and having nice shiny surfaces makes your photos crisp and sharp. If you can, you should hire a professional cleaner prior to the photo shoot, or set aside part of the day to do a thorough cleaning yourself.
If you live in the home while you are selling, try your hardest to keep it as clean as you can throughout the selling processes. Buying a home is a huge investment and a big life decision. If a buyer sees two identical homes and one is particularly clean… that person is much more likely to buy the one that is obviously more cared for by the current owners.

1. Click the "Download Stills" link in the email we send you
2. Click "Save" when the window pops-up
   
   • we recomend saving to desktop so the file is easily located
3. Double-click the file you just downloaded
4. Click "unzip" to install files to your computer
5. Photos are installed to C:\TallyTours\
   
   1. Click on "My Computer" (sometimes just called "Computer")
   2. Click on your C: drive
   3. Click on the "TallyTours" folder
6. You can delete the original file from your desktop

This is a problem with Internet Explorer (IE) and how it handles links that open into a new browser window. When you click to view a virtual tour it doesn’t actually disappear, it simply pops up for a brief moment and then goes behind the main browser window.  If this is happening to you, here is what we recommend you do:

1. Within Internet Explorer, click “Tools” at the top
2. Go to “Internet Options” (usually the last option in the list)
3. In the area labeled “Tabs” click “settings”
4. In this window find the section titled “When a pop-up is encountered:”
5. Choose the option for “Always open pop-ups in new tab”
6. Click OK / Click OK again.