Drone videography provides aerial photography and video of properties for marketing, capturing the elevated and sweeping perspectives that showcase property, land, and surroundings in ways ground-level imagery cannot, in exchange for per-shoot or per-project fees.
Log in to followSitting on about $1,400 and trying to work out the order of operations on the aerial side, because everyone I ask gives me the opposite answer. One path is spend on the Part 107 s…
I hold a paper position on a rural parcel, roughly 240 acres, and the borrower has stopped responding. I need to know what's physically out there before I decide anything, and I c…
Getting quotes for media on the first flip and the photographer offers two tiers. Ground only, 35 stills plus a floor plan, $310. Add aerial, 12 aerial stills plus a 75 second edi…
I've been trying to put the aerial line item somewhere sensible in a marketing budget and I can't get the benefit to sit still. The case that it buys days off market goes like thi…
Got a media quote back yesterday on a small flip and it was one number. $625, stills, walkthrough video, aerial, done. The pilot I used before that charged $340 for stills and vid…
I've been charging $250 flat for what I call the standard aerial: 8 to 10 edited stills plus a 60 second clip cut to music, delivered next day. Agents keep asking me to fold it in…
Four agents in the last two months have asked me for aerial as part of a photo package and I've had to say no every time. Two of them went and hired somebody who did the whole sho…
Getting quotes for a service business I'm building around listing media, and one pilot broke his price into $400 for the flight and $250 for editing. The flight I understand, he d…
Passed the Part 107 in the spring and started taking paid work in July. Eleven weeks of numbers, because I read enough vague posts before I started and they didn't help me. 22 fli…
One of my two shooters passed the Part 107 knowledge test and is now telling me the business also has to register something before we can bill for aerials. I thought the certifica…
First rental going on the market in a few weeks and I got ahead of myself on the marketing. Here is what it cost me. I booked an aerial package for $450 off an ad that showed nice…
I've been pricing out what marketing costs on the first deal and the aerial line is the one I can't settle. Two paths in front of me. Path one, I get certified. The knowledge test…
Looking at buying into a small aerial operation as something I own without running day to day, and the revenue mix is where I keep stalling out. What I was shown for last year, si…
I'm putting the marketing and documentation budget together on a six-story build, 14 months of construction. Pilot quoted $650 per visit for a monthly progress flight plus a $1,20…
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…
I've got 60-odd properties on my watch list and I'm noticing which ones came with aerial. Trying to decide how much weight to give it when I'm screening from four hours away. The…
Transitional ag parcel, 31 acres, edge of a growing suburb where the sewer line stops about 900 feet short of the north property boundary. I've been sitting on it since a 1031 lan…
Mid renovation on a 1920s two story, roof came off the back addition, and I've been flying a $700 drone over it twice a week so I have a record of the framing and the flashing det…
Small mixed-use building, two retail bays downstairs and four apartments up, in a secondary market. I was the money on this one with a local operating partner. My whole job is und…
Buying an 18 acre parcel and the seller's marketing had a drone video plus about a dozen aerials, and the listing agent mentioned the seller paid $600 for it. The video is genuine…