Removing photos of home from real estate sites
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Anonymous
| Can anyone advise how I can have interior photos of my home from Redfin, Zillow, etc? I've tried (unsuccessfully) contacting the agents / companies, to no avail. It makes me uneasy to have these photos on the web. Thanks in advance for any help! |
Anonymous
| Good question! The listing for our house is still up 3 years later and I'd also love to know how to get them removed. |
Anonymous
Whoops, OP again: how I can have interior photos of my home REMOVED from Redfin |
Anonymous
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I just went through this. Unfortunately MRIS requires authorization directly from your agent - they won't take it from you (I tried). It took 5 messages to my agent and a call to her broker before she finally contacted MRIS. Be persistent.
Note: I was told that the first photo could not be removed, but all others could. Not sure why. |
Anonymous
| Why would anyone care about this? HOme security? |
Anonymous
| I bought last summer and contacted the buyer's agent by email to ask to have them removed. Since they are the ones who posted the listing in the MRIS, they are also the ones who can take them down. I think I also contacted redfin and zillow separately (had to sign up for an account to do this, but wasn't spammed afterwards or anything)--I believe I had to "claim" my property and request that they only show an aerial view of my home. Everything was taken care of in a day or two. |
Anonymous
| NOPE can't do it, once it's on the internet it's on for life. |
Anonymous
| PP here, I cannot find the MRIS pictures of my house for the life of me (I've looked because I wished I kept them to do a before/after comparison). They are not there because I requested that they be removed--it worked! |
Anonymous
I'd like to know this too. What's the big deal? |
VArealtor
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NP. Security is certainly an issue but also privacy. It's your home. OP, try contacting your broker directly to ask for their removal if the agent is unresponsive. |
Anonymous
Drinking the Party Kool Aid to give up our Fourth Amendment rights? Perhaps not you, but there are definitely more and more Americans acting as lemmings instead of believing and working to protect their threatened "right to privacy". Once relinquished, our personal privacy, even regarding the particulars of our home interior/exterior may never be gotten back. Then we truly become a fascist state. 
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Anonymous
Yes, truely, it is a national security concern that there are three year old pics of the furniture of a previous owner. |
Anonymous
| NP here. It's not just privacy; I want them taken down because we are planning to sell our house, and the photos taken 4 years ago are still there. I don't want old pics floating around. |
Anonymous
Agree with this. Our house was on the market and we stumbled across an old set of pictures. We had done a lot of updates and the house looked much better when we sold. I was concerned that potential buyers could be confused. |
Anonymous
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If you don't understand why it is a security concern to have your pictures on these website, you are either very stupid or very ignorant (most likely a liberal too, which means you are basically both).
Let me enlighten you on something. A professional can put together a complete layout of your house in minutes by looking at the pictures (of course, provided they show enough information, which they do most of the time). Then, another professional can rob your house also within minutes, before your stupid little security system can do any good whatsoever. That's why people don't want the WHOLE WORLD to know the layout of their house. But continue drinking your reactive Kool-Aid instead of being proactive. Ostriches like you deserve whatever may happen as a result of your worthless ignorance. |