Preparing a Property

Turn them all on, turn off the ceiling fan, and fix the mismatched bulbs. The ten minutes of prep with the highest return in the whole process.

She had cleaned. Then I opened the bathroom and found every bottle and towel in the apartment stacked in the tub. Here is what actually comes out before a shoot.

Built to forward to a seller. Send it a week out, not the night before, because half of it takes a trip to the hardware store.

The single best predictor of a good shoot isn’t the apartment or the light. It’s whether somebody told the seller what to expect.