Buying Real Estate By The Day: How To Choose The Right Location
/We're not the first to observe that finding the right location for a production is like shopping for real estate. And being a good location scout/manager is a lot like being a good real estate agent.
Feature film location manager Payton Dunham gives a great example of this comparison when he describes hunting for a principal house location with a director. Of course, the first property they looked at was perfect, but the director just couldn't commit to it. Weeks later, as the search became more frantic, Dunham took him past that first house again.
"This is it!" said the director.
"By this time," says Dunham, "he'd looked at so many that he'd forgotten it."
Many real estate agents can probably relate.
Read More