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Rainmaker
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Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Jeff, many of our luxury home listing agents are doing this after closing.    It started sometime early 2014.

Feb 07, 2015 08:43 AM
Rainmaker
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Hella M. Rothwell, Broker/Realtor®
Carmel by the Sea, CA
Rothwell Realty Inc. CA#01968433 Carmel-by-the-Sea

Jeff Dowler CRS - Your MLS probably has rules about this, like you have to have at least 1 shot up. I would take down all the others just before it closed while you are still in control. But way before then, your seller needs to know that his information cannot be erased. See Zillow as an example.

Feb 07, 2015 04:47 AM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

Cindy Davis  - the challenge is can you TRULY remove things from the Internet. Yep you can take off the MLS and listing sites but I don't think you acan truly remove them. I have never been asked but know people who have

Raoul Loustaunau - I think that's the best you can do

Jeff

Feb 07, 2015 02:27 AM
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Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

I would do as they ask, within reason.

Oct 08, 2019 10:42 PM
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Eric Valente
Calabasas, CA
Eric

I'm often asked to do so. I remove pictures from MLS, but keep them on a disc. 

Feb 08, 2015 06:17 AM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

And it could also be the new homeowners who ask. It's never been asked of me by either the sellers OR the new owners. And what about if the home DOES not sell or gets relisted?

Feb 08, 2015 04:02 AM
Rainmaker
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Jeff, that's a really interesting question. Once the home is sold, it's no longer their's, so do they have any say in what materials you post? Our mls listing agreement says if we supplied the material we own it and can use it any way we want. Then, I suppose it also depends on the client--if this is an important, repeat and referral clients, I'd probably do what I could to keep them happy.

Feb 07, 2015 08:31 PM
Rainmaker
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Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

I often remove my photos and videos regardless if seller ask me or not to do so.

Our MLS requires to have at least one picture left.

Feb 07, 2015 04:08 PM
Rainmaker
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Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

I have never had this come up. How interesting. 

Feb 07, 2015 11:46 AM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

Hella M. Rothwell, Broker/Realtor® - getting photos off the ML is easy as long as it's done early on. Because of how the Internet works there are going to be some sites that grab our stuff we can do nothing about

Jeff

Feb 07, 2015 10:14 AM
Rainmaker
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Evelyn Johnston
Friends & Neighbors Real Estate - Elkhart, IN
The People You Know, Like and Trust!

After a home has sold?  Then you are talking about the new owners?  In that case, yes I would take them down.

Feb 07, 2015 10:09 AM
Rainmaker
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Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Andover, MA
Andover, MA: Andover Luxury Homes For Sale

Jeff Dowler CRS most of the pictures, YouTube videos etc you can remove. Though I strongly believe, you can't remove all the traces left online! We ourselves don't know where the listing has reached once it is out in public.

However, the seller should not be concerned about that once the home is sold, correct? If the new owner asks for it, that may be a valid request I guess!

Feb 07, 2015 07:26 AM
Rainmaker
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Jeff,

Remove them.  It is a question of privacy that is the issue, and you are right who know where on the Internet those pictures are.  

Feb 07, 2015 05:52 AM
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Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

I don't think it's possible, Jeff.  It's the nature of today's business.

Feb 07, 2015 05:33 AM
Rainmaker
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Nancy Laswick
United Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
Your REALTOR® For The Valley Of The Sun

I offer to remove photos or videos that I've posted to web sites that I control but sites such as Arizona Multiple Listing Service, Zillow, Trulia, etc. are not controlled by the sellers agent. They have a legal right to continue to display content you've uploaded, and in the case of ARMLS, have a legal copyright to display those images. I may be able to petition, by email, other third party sites to remove images or videos but once images or videos are out on the web it's almost impossible to find every site they may appear on.

Feb 07, 2015 05:07 AM
Rainmaker
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Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

Good question Jeff. I think all you can do is remove them from your local MLS, the Internet lives on forever. You may not have full control of some suites like Z & T and Rdot com.

Feb 07, 2015 04:59 AM
Rainmaker
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Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Cell: 631-805-4400
The Top Team @ Charles Rutenberg Realty 255 Executive Dr, Plainview NY 11803 - Plainview, NY
Long Island Condo and Home Specialists

No one has ever asked us to do this  before, but if I was able to, I would certainly try and remove the photos...

Feb 07, 2015 03:42 AM
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Shannon Thomas
Selling Indy Metro, LLC - Avon, IN
Managing Broker, E-Pro, ABR,SRS, SFR

Their listing gave you permission to post but for the sake of seller agent relationship I would try to honor their requests.  After you sell you don't have any power to go on your past listing and delete though unless done before its updated on the MLS.  

Feb 07, 2015 02:46 AM
Rainmaker
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Cindy Davis
SD Home Source Realty - San Diego, CA

If someone asked me to do this, then I would feel like I have to give it a try.

Feb 07, 2015 12:49 AM
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Raoul Loustaunau
EXP REALTY - Phoenix, AZ
urhomefinder.com myvaluetoday.com

Hello Jeff , some times that easy to do , but some times its imposible

like i tell my cients to start what goes on the web its their for a life time.

if they were to ask i will try my best.

Feb 07, 2015 12:42 AM