“”we wound up buying the second house we viewed online””
Interesting. I bought the first house I looked at online and then visited the same day. After looking at it my brother said you need to look at at least 30 houses before you decide. I wasted 1 month doing that, went back to the 1st one, it was still available so I bought it.
Never looked back.
A younger family member was buying a new home and was not getting any real help from a local realtor, who didn’t believe in the internet.
I suggested that they put their home on Zillow. The response was excellent.
They had 5 families very interested, and one couple bought their home.
You were lucky it was still available!
When we were looking at this very hot market, the homes were sold in many cases within a few days of listing. We were fortunate that our seller had absolutely no color sense and the sheer horror of getting hit in the eyes with acid green turned many off immediately.
We repainted in neutrals...immediately.