On my standard day, I’ll be at a house at around 9:00am that has been on my schedule for at least a few days in advance. The real estate agent that hired me will be at the property with me about 75% of the time and the homeowners will be present about 75% of the time as well.

I’ll spend anywhere between 1 to 2.5 hours at the house depending on the size of the property and the package that the real estate agent purchased. If photography, videography, and other services were purchased I could be at this one house for up to 4 hours if its a large one.

Only in extremely rare cases will I spend more than 4 hours max at a single house. I would say the average time spent inside a home is 1.5 – 2 hours.

After that I’ll usually have about an hour in between shoots. I do this purposefully to allow myself some wiggle room to make sure I’m never rushing a job. Then I’ll head to the property that I have scheduled for the afternoon.

It’s very common that I’m home by 3pm everyday at the latest. I immediately upload the images to my hard drive. Once they’re uploaded, I’ll either add them to my editing queue or start editing right away if I’m all caught up.

I’ve found that it usually takes me a slightly longer amount of time to edit a job than I took to photograph it. This mean that on average I’ll be editing for 2 – 5 hours per day.

Now, this is simply how I choose to work. Many others decide to photograph a 3rd or even 4th house and outsource their editing work. Personally, I like editing my own photos since I have a specific style.

You will find all types of differences in this daily routine. I like to keep my workload manageable and never accept more than 3 houses per day. There are days when I only have 1 home and in the slow season I will have some days completely off.

Again, I prefer to schedule myself like this. I like my downtime and enjoy having days off. Others will never have a day off and will work 80 hour weeks. There is a lot of freedom of choice involved here.