Rental Listing Media in Los Angeles
Most LA landlords stitch a $250 photographer, a $400 videographer, a $200 floor-plan vendor, and a $350 Matterport tech together. Bundled, that is $1,200 with four invoices, four schedules, and four payment terms. We do all four with one shoot, one invoice, and one delivery link — MLS-ready in 48 hours from $385.
Photo, video, floor plan, 3D — in one shoot
Most LA landlords end up with photo-only listings, and the reason is not laziness. Coordinating a photographer, a videographer, a floor-plan draftsman, and a Matterport tech for a single 1BR turnover is four phone calls, four scheduling windows, four insurance certificates, and four invoices. For most owners that overhead is not worth the marginal rent gain, so they default to a $250 photo set and call it done.
The bundled-shoot workflow exists to fix that math. A single 90-minute capture session pulls photos, a walkthrough video, the Matterport scan, and the floor plan source data simultaneously — same crew, same lens, same time-of-day light across every deliverable. The unit gets staged once, the tenant (if occupied) is notified once under California Civil Code §1954, and you get one cloud folder back with everything organized for MLS, Zillow, Apartments.com, Hotpads, and your own site.
What changes when a tenant rents off a richer listing: fewer is this real? texts, fewer wasted in-person showings from people who would have ruled the unit out at the floor-plan stage, and faster signed leases because a serious applicant has already mentally walked the space before they ever set foot in it. On a long-vacancy unit that compounds straight into recovered rent.
The full listing media package
HDR-flash photo set
15 to 25 wide-frame interior and exterior shots, color-corrected, with HDR flash exposure to balance LA window light against interior shadows.
Social-cut walkthrough
60 to 90 second vertical and horizontal cuts of the unit, ready for Zillow video, Apartments.com, Instagram Reels, and TikTok.
Schematic floor plan
2D floor plan drawn to scale with room dimensions, total square footage, and door swings — the layout question every applicant texts about.
Matterport 3D dollhouse
Optional fully navigable 3D scan. Out-of-state applicants can walk the unit before flying in, which cuts wasted in-person showings.
MLS-ready aspect packs
Crops sized for MLS, Zillow, Apartments.com, Hotpads, and your own site. No more re-cropping the hero shot for every portal.
Single delivery link
Everything organized in one cloud folder — photos, video files, floor plan PDF, Matterport URL — emailed within 48 hours of the shoot.
Listing media cost by depth
One shoot, one invoice, one delivery link. Same price across every LA neighborhood.
What makes LA listing media different
Tenant-occupied scheduling under §1954
California Civil Code §1954 requires 24 hours written notice before entering a tenant-occupied unit, and the entry has to fall in normal business hours unless the tenant agrees otherwise. A four-vendor stack means four separate notices and four windows the tenant has to accommodate. A single bundled shoot is one notice, one window, and the resident loses 90 minutes once instead of half a day across four visits.
Rent-stabilized vacancy decontrol marketing
Under Costa-Hawkins, a rent-stabilized unit in LA gets one vacancy decontrol moment when the prior tenant moves out — that is the single window to reset rent to market before the next stabilization clock starts. A long-vacancy rent-stabilized unit is exactly the listing where richer media earns its keep, because every week of slack vacancy is rent you do not get back and the next ceiling is locked in for years.
LA seasonal light and traffic windows
Golden hour timing varies by basin. A street-facing unit in Venice or Santa Monica catches different exterior light than one in Mid-City or Echo Park, and traffic in Hollywood or DTLA forces tighter capture windows than the Westside or Valley. Our LA-native dispatch books the shoot for the time-of-day window that flatters the specific exposure of the unit, not a generic one-size slot.
Pair listing media with the rest of the turnover
Make Ready
Clean, paint, repair, and rekey before the media shoot so the photos show the rent-ready unit, not the move-out one.
Apartment Photography
Photo-only listings for owners who already have video or floor plans handled.
Apartment Videography
Walkthrough video as a standalone deliverable for social and portal listings.
Matterport 3D Tours
Standalone 3D dollhouse scans for out-of-state applicants and high-end listings.
Frequently asked questions
In LA, stitching together a $250 photographer, a $400 videographer, a $200 floor-plan vendor, and a $350 Matterport tech runs about $1,200 with four invoices, four schedules, and four payment terms. We do all four with one shoot, one invoice, one delivery link. Bundling also means the photo, video, floor plan, and 3D scan all come from the same capture session, so the framing and the time-of-day light match across deliverables.
Depends on the package. Photo + Floor Plan ships 15 to 25 HDR-flash photos plus a 2D floor plan with dimensions. Pro Bundle adds a 60 second social walkthrough. Premium Listing adds a 90 second video and a Matterport 3D tour. Every package ships as a single cloud folder with MLS, Zillow, Apartments.com, and Hotpads aspect ratios pre-cropped, plus the floor plan as both PDF and PNG.
About 90 minutes on site for a 1BR or 2BR. The crew captures photos, video, the Matterport scan, and the floor plan source data in one continuous session — that is the whole point of the bundle. For tenant-occupied units we coordinate the 24-hour written entry notice required under California Civil Code §1954 and pick a window that minimizes resident disruption.
Yes. If you already have a recent floor plan or only want photos plus video, text 310-774-0099 with what you need and we will quote a custom mix. The published bundle prices are the cheapest path when you want everything; line-item swaps usually land within 10 to 20 percent of the bundle.
If a make-ready, paint, or staging change happens within 30 days of the original shoot, we return for a partial re-shoot at a reduced rate — typically just the rooms that changed. If the unit is fully re-staged or substantially renovated, that is a fresh booking. Most landlords schedule the media shoot after make-ready is complete to avoid the re-shoot question entirely.
Yes — that is what the Portfolio package is for. Property managers and agents with 5 or more units in one building, or in close geographic proximity, get bulk pricing because we capture everything in a single dispatch day. Text the building address and unit count to 310-774-0099 for a portfolio quote.
Separately in LA: photographer $250, videographer $400, floor-plan vendor $200, Matterport tech $350 — about $1,200 plus the coordination overhead. Our Premium Listing bundle covers all four for $945, or you can step down to the $645 Pro Bundle if you do not need the Matterport scan, or the $385 Photo + Floor Plan tier if video is not on the table.
Ready for a listing media bundle?
Text the unit address and target list date. Our dispatch texts back a quote and shoot window in under 15 minutes.
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