What $325 of aerial actually did on a 6 acre listing

I'm the numbers person here usually so this is a small one, but it worked and I want to write down why.

Six acre parcel with a creek along the back third and a stand of hardwoods that you can't see at all from the road. Ground photos made it look like a mowed field with a fence. Two weeks, four showings, nothing.

I paid a certified pilot $325 for a package: one 45 second video, eight stills, and one overhead shot with the approximate parcel outline drawn on it. That outline came from county parcel data, so it shows roughly where the lines run and it is not a survey. If a buyer wants boundaries they hire a licensed surveyor.

After the new photos went up we got nine showings in twelve days and sold to the third one. I can't prove the aerial did it. What I can say is that two of those buyers mentioned the creek before they mentioned the house, and the creek was invisible in the old photos.

For anyone new to this: aerial videography means hiring someone with an FAA remote pilot certificate, the Part 107, which is what commercial drone work requires. They fly the property and hand you video and stills. Around here the range I saw quoted was $200 to $600 depending on how much editing and how far they drive.

What I'd keep: the overhead with the outline. That single image answered the question every land buyer asks first, which is what am I actually buying. What I'd skip: the slow cinematic pullback set to music. Nobody watched past ten seconds.