For Property Managers
One Media Partner
for Your Whole Portfolio
Villa Views partners with property management groups across Charlottesville and the Shenandoah Valley - short-term rental and long-term residential. Every new door photographed to the same standard, delivered within 24 hours, with one photographer who already knows how you work.
Why a standing partner
What property managers get
from a recurring arrangement.
One Standard Across Every Door
Your portfolio looks like one brand, not a patchwork of whoever was available that week. Same eye, same editing, same quality on every property you onboard.
New Doors Photographed Fast
Signed a new owner? Get the property photographed and listed the same week. Online booking, no phone tag, and files delivered within 24 hours of the shoot.
STR and Long-Term Coverage
Amenity-first vacation rental photography for your Airbnb and VRBO inventory, and clean, efficient unit photography for long-term rental listings.
Licensing Kept Simple
Standard rental listings do not carry a license fee. When you do want permanent, unrestricted use - Airbnb, VRBO, or buying a set outright - it is a one-time $200 flat fee per property, with no renewals and no revenue share.
Everything in One Portal
Every property, every shoot, every file - organized in one client dashboard your team can pull from anytime. No hunting through email threads for last year's photos.
Full Media Stack Available
Beyond photos: FAA-certified drone, 3D virtual tours, floor plans, twilight, and virtual staging for vacant units.
How it works
Already working with
property management groups.
Villa Views already shoots on a recurring basis for property management in the Charlottesville area. The arrangement is simple: your team books shoots through the portal as new properties come on, I photograph them to your standard, and your listings team has files the next morning.
Villa Views is one photographer. That is the reason a portfolio looks consistent instead of looking like whoever was free that week, and it is also the reason only a handful of standing partnerships run at a time. Turnaround is the product here, and 24 hours only holds if the calendar is not oversold. So new portfolios come on deliberately rather than whenever.
Pricing starts from my standard rates, photography from $195 per property. Every unit you market under its own listing is treated as its own listing here, and when two or more are photographed on the same day, each additional one comes off its tier rate. No contracts you have to lawyer up for; just a working relationship that keeps your inventory looking sharp.
Each unit is its own listing
Every property marketed under its own listing is photographed and delivered as its own listing - its own gallery, its own edited images, its own property website and marketing assets. That holds for units inside the same building. Two apartments in one complex are two listings, because your renters see two listings.
What changes is the price. When two or more listings are photographed on the same day, the largest property is billed at its standard rate and every additional listing is $25 off its own tier. Photographing several units in one trip cuts travel, setup, and scheduling overhead, and that saving goes back to you.
| Property size | Standard | Each additional same day |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2,000 sq ft | $195 | $170 |
| 2,001 - 3,500 sq ft | $270 | $245 |
| 3,501 - 5,000 sq ft | $345 | $320 |
| 5,001 - 6,500 sq ft | $420 | $395 |
Two units under 2,000 sq ft photographed the same day are $365 total. Buildings or portfolios with several units at once are quoted as a package - ask on a call.
The fastest way to see if it's a fit is a 15-minute call. Bring your portfolio size and onboarding pace; I'll bring straight answers on pricing, scheduling, and turnaround.
Week to week
What onboarding
actually looks like.
There is no implementation project and nothing for your team to learn. Here is the whole thing, start to steady state.
1. The intro call
Fifteen minutes. Portfolio size, the mix of short-term and long-term doors, and roughly how many properties you onboard in a typical month. That is enough to settle pricing and confirm the region works.
2. Your team gets portal access
Everyone who schedules gets a login. Nothing routes through one person on your side or mine, and nothing sits waiting on an email to get returned. Your properties and files live in one shared dashboard from the first shoot onward.
3. The first door goes on the calendar
A coordinator books through the portal, picks a date, and includes the lockbox code with the booking. Nobody on your team has to meet the photographer on site or hand off a key, which is usually the part that turns a two-day job into a two-week one.
4. Files land within 24 hours
Edited, correctly sized, filed in the dashboard under that property. Your listings team pulls them the next morning and the unit goes live. A shoot on Tuesday is a live listing Wednesday.
5. Then it just repeats
Every property after the first is the same short booking. Nothing to renegotiate, nothing to re-explain. The dashboard doubles as the archive, so last spring's photos for a unit are still there when the tenant turns over and you need to relist it.
Licensing
A license that does not
scale with your portfolio.
Most of the work in a management portfolio never needs one. Photographing a unit so you can list it and rent it is covered by the shoot itself. A license is what you buy when the photos take on a life beyond that listing - a short-term rental running on Airbnb or VRBO, an owner who wants to keep the images after the property sells, or an agent who wants the set outright for unrestricted marketing.
The common industry approach to those rights is two to three times the photography fee. Against a $195 shoot, that is $390 to $585 per property for permission to keep using photos you already paid to have taken.
Villa Views charges a flat $200 per property, one time, regardless of the package. It does not renew. It does not expire. It does not take a percentage of what the unit earns, and it does not come back around because a listing stayed live longer than expected or performed better than expected.
For a portfolio the part that matters is that it is optional and per property. There is no licensing line riding on every door you onboard - only on the properties where you actually want permanent, unrestricted use. Your standard long-term rental listings do not carry it.
When it does apply, it is one invoice for that property, at the time of the shoot, and no licensing conversation ever again for that door.
Common questions
Questions property managers ask
before partnering.
Yes. Every property marketed under its own listing is treated as its own listing, including units inside the same building. When two or more listings are photographed on the same day, the largest property is billed at its standard rate and each additional listing is $25 off its own square-footage tier - so a second unit under 2,000 sq ft is $170 rather than $195. Buildings or portfolios with several units at once are quoted as a package.
Yes - booking is fully online through the Villa Views portal, so anyone on your team can schedule a shoot in a couple of minutes without a phone call. All of your properties and files live in one shared dashboard.
24-hour delivery is the standard on every shoot, and a busy week does not change it. Delivery runs per shoot rather than per batch, so files come back property by property as the group works through instead of everything landing at the end. This is the honest reason standing partnerships are limited rather than open-ended: turnaround is the actual product, and 24 hours only holds if the calendar is not oversold. If you have an unusually large batch coming, say so when you book or email sean@villaviews.co and I will set the dates around it in advance.
Book them all through the portal and pick dates that fit your turnover schedule. Units at the same address or complex can often be photographed in one visit, which is the efficient version, so ask when you book. One visit means one trip, not one combined listing - each unit is still delivered as its own listing with its own gallery and property website, and each additional listing photographed that day is $25 off its tier. Each one carries its own lockbox code in the booking, so no one on your team has to be on site or coordinate access unit by unit.
Standard long-term rental listings do not carry a license fee. A commercial license is what you buy when you want permanent, unrestricted use of the images - a short-term rental on Airbnb or VRBO, or buying a set outright. One-time $200 flat fee per property, no renewals. Details on the licensing page.
Charlottesville, Crozet, Nellysford and Wintergreen, Waynesboro, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Lexington, and the surrounding counties. See the full service area for travel details.
Yes. For long-term rentals I work around turnover windows and photograph units clean-and-vacant, and virtual staging is available when an empty unit needs to show furnished.
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