Advertising your cottage for sale

Find out where your real estate agent is advertising your place. Has she just posted it in the MLS pages, or the local newspaper? Go to the Internet and check out the posting for your property. If you aren't happy with the way it looks, you can complain you know. (Better yet, gently offer to help take the photos yourself!)
Nothing turns me off more than to look at a property posting with photos taken in winter!
A while ago, the London, St Thomas Real Estate Board hired somebody to drive around and take pictures of all the houses on all the streets so they would have an archive of pics and that's why you'll see snow on the ground in July!
Tell your Realtor to get off his hiney and take new pics! Nobody wants a summer home or lake home that's covered with snow! And I don't care if it is Christmas time!