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I agree. Both our listings have photographs taken by me with the phone. Some of them are several years old and I’ve only updated one or two of them when something has noticeably changed such as a large new piece of furniture or a complete change of colour scheme.
Yes, I know that there is a minute danger of a guest giving a lower star rating for accuracy because the photos don’t do the place full justice but I love it when guests exclaim that it’s even better than the photpographs.
We talk a lot about managing guest expectations and my opinion is that the whole stay starts off on a much better foot if the guests are delighted by the space the minute they walk in. It can help set the tone.
Mean girls. What is your ignorance a good example of? You have no excuse since you’ve just been told what it means. And if you choose not to believe us there’s the almighty google.
Had it, twice now. Glowing five star reviews but marked down on Accuracy because the images “didn’t do the apartment justice”. WTF. They’re not bad pics, but certainly not professional standard, although having a photographer in to do decent ones has been on the ToDo list for about five months now!
Clearly we disagree. Filters can be instant digital fixes. But the word has been used in photography as long as I can remember and that’s at least 40 years.
Helsi: Our property taxes are 10-percent of our home’s current selling value. Our house is currently worth $660,000, which is why we pay $6,600 in taxes each year.
When there is an economic recession, that causes lower home values, homeowners quickly ask local tax officials to lower their property tax rate based on the lower estimated selling price.
As someone who has commissioned photography for over twenty years, I can say that photographers with SLRs who are doing professional shoots have always used filters when I have worked with them on shoots @Chris
I didn’t say it could. I said the use of the word “filter” is common in the US, i.e., American English.
I also made the point that professional photographers also use the word filter.
As for your new point
For reasons that are unclear to me you’ve decided to die on this hill (a common idiom in English.) I’m not sure why you take the common usage of the word filter and the widespread usage of digital filters as some kind of personal insult. As a gentle reminder we are talking about viewing Airbnb listing photos that are too dark. People will see these differently depending on the device settings anyway. Many of these devices are smartphones, and regardless of whether they went through a 4 minute post production or a 4 second post production they are looking at small low quality pictures.
Well I have an LTR in upstate NY that the property taxes are over $10k annually (and have been $12k+ in the past). It is just a 3BR/2.5BA 2002 sq ft split ranch with 0.19 of an acre. I think $6.6k is pretty good for CA.
Ironically I was born and raised in upstate NY and when I moved back for 2 years and bought that house and then moved on again, NY garnished my savings account for thousands of $$$ without warning because they thought I had not filed my NY income taxes. I was active duty military and had not needed to reclaim my NY residency from FL (where there is no state income tax) just because I lived there for 2 years. Luckily it only took about 3 months for me to get it back, with interest. But what a hassle! NY will get their money out of you for sure!!!