A Picture May Be Worth A Thousand Words, But A Frame Completes The Story

A Picture May Be Worth A Thousand Words, But A Frame Completes The Story

David is CEO of Move, Inc./realtor.com. Realtor.com makes buying, selling, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.

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Before I joined realtor.com, I thought of online home search the way most people probably do “” a way to look at pretty pictures of homes, dream about where my family and I might live, and learn about what's available in any given market and how much I'd have to spend for a home that suits my needs.

But as I've come to understand, and as any real estate professional knows, it's about so much more than that. When people become homeowners, they invest more fully in a community, and the quality of their lives in that home is affected by a lot of factors outside of those four walls.