Creating Floor Plans for Real Estate with CubiCasa

[@AliShariaty]

Last week I tried this for the first time on a 7500sqf house. Very complicated floor plan. Wine cellar in the basement, office at floor 1.5 and 2 set of stairways to second floor. 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, balcony and a detached two stories guest house. Man! I was so sure the app cant handle it and I was amazed by the end result! I’m now so confident in this tool. Thank you for sharing.

[@michaellaniak]

I felt the same way. I tried this on a 2,700sqft house with a lot of furniture and appliances in the way and thought no way this would/could work and thought I would just be wasting money to even try. Sure enough I got back the plan and could not believe how accurate the layout is.

[@gadget_Bob]

@@michaellaniak so even with furniture in the way, it worked well?

[@RileyBanksWho]

Marketing bots

[@darianrundallmedia1305]

Hey Mike, I just tried Cubicasa, didn't really know what I was doing and the plans came out great. Now I can add this to my list of services. thanks!

[@tonyandjeaninehoppers2872]

Just getting started in this business and watching your videos have taught me so much. Thanks for everything and God bless you and yours.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks, you as well!

[@mendezvende]

Hi Mike, this is Jonathan Mendez a Real Estate Broker in San Quintin Baja California Mexico, I just saw your video and had to take the time to thank for putting this video together. ALL you sad its right evening in our Country. GREAT VIDEO 🙌

[@masonresnick5105]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. I'm planning to add floor plans to my real estate photography offerings and I'm feeling more confident after watching this how-to video.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Cheers!

[@brisbanerealestatemedia3598]

Yep just started using this a few months ago and I deliberately bought the iPhone 12 because I assumed correctly that the app would be using their Lidar soon.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yeah! I saw they just launched that this week.

[@crystalwizardstudios]

Great video Mike! You have been such an immense help getting my real estate photo/video career up and going. I'm just getting into Matterport and floor plans and your advice has been absolutely invaluable. I feel like your apprentice even though we are miles apart. From the snowy banks Ontario, thanks again! you rock!!!!

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Hey! Thanks so much. So glad to hear the videos have been helpful 😊 best of luck with everything!!

[@versus023]

Thank you! I want to scan a house that I will buy as a base plan for renovation. Helped a lot!

[@michaelpoczynek]

The software looks amazing. I can't wait to try my first shoot today! 😀 Thanks for making this video.

[@nicksokolov1412]

I want to start real estate photography business soon and your videos are very helpful. And it would be great if you could make a video on how a proper real estate photographer website should look. Thanks

[@Cheese-Head]

Thank you for all your videos. You’re helping me so much in planning to start my business. I have so many questions. Doesn’t matterport provide floor plans automatically with the 3d model after a few hours of processing the scan files? And it’s already part of the subscription. Here you have to wait till next day. Why would you incur an extra cost when you already get that with matterport.

[@spmartin]

Very nice, informative video. The only thing this video does not show, which would be helpful for people to know, is the 3D mesh that appears as you are scanning. It helps you to know if you missed anything. Also, if you have an mobile device with LIDAR your results will be even better!

[@santiagovillegas2932]

Thanks for all .

[@maxlasater]

You are the man you cover it all!

[@TurnerCommaCarson]

Great video! Just getting started and I plan to add this service as well

[@RobFuz]

Thank you so much for this! I am excited to make this part of my job easier!!!

[@AliShariaty]

Great job, Thank you. I can’t wait for the matterport virtual tour video. Especially your insight on the cloud plans to buy and also the hardware.

[@Sassifrassilassi]

Love this video, thank you! Should you start scanning in any particular order? Does it matter if you're in the basement or the top floor?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks! Nope, doesn’t matter where you start.

[@RobFuz]

I have done 7 floor plans so far and I love it! I will let my rep know you turned me onto them, I already mentioned you when I have my zoom meeting with him. Hopefully they will through you some free floor plans. Thanks again Mike for this killer tip

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks! Much appreciated!

[@katerinadi3158]

you are amazing at teaching! :) thank you!😃

[@lawaincooley6788]

I want to try this! We're selling our home FSBO. I did our own photography and shor the video myself. It isn't perfect but I promise to hire a professional if our home doesn't sell soon.

[@JorgePerezOrozco]

This is a great addition thanks for the tip!

[@palebeachbum]

This technology is amazing. I'm so curious how it actually works. Thanks for the video!

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It certainly is!

[@snotlobber]

Another great vid Mike! How was your learning curve... you nail it the first time or would you suggest more than a few practice runs?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Nailed it first time. That’s the beauty of it. Pretty much as simple as it gets!

[@snotlobber]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Good to know.. they are giving one free right now and was hoping that would be enough..lol

[@carolynmahon3073]

How does this work when there is furniture in the rooms? Can you preview before ordering?

[@1320lennman]

Wow. Thanks for this. Definitely going to implement this service. :)

[@georgestreng]

I’m sold! Thank-you!

[@garymbuck1]

Another fantastic video!

[@robbiefishing]

Once again you have been incredibly helpful. Thank you. You are an excellent teacher.

[@MisterDavidH]

Great video. Thanks. I live isn an area that most of the homes are newer and have open floor planns. In my home as an examble I walk in from the front and to my right are 2 bedrooms and a bath a few steps more I can see the kitchen, family room dinning room office doorway master bedroom doorway. Do I scan the the family room go to the kitchen go to the dining area all seperated or just walk around the the entire outside walls in the whole area then go to the bedrroms off of the main area.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

You just need to cover the perimeter of each room mainly. You can go over spaces you’ve already covered to get to other spaces. That’s totally fine and won’t mess anything up.

[@MisterDavidH]

Thank you or geting back to me. I gave it a try and it all worked out. Thank you.@@InsideRealEstatePhotography

[@albertoangel4559]

Thank you! I will be adding this service to my clients moving forward. Keep up the great work. Would there be any future video on virtual staging to add to photography services?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Probably not because I have no knowledge of virtual staging. I outsource that! Haha

[@risofabio55]

Thanks for sharing. I am amazed at how well this process works. Do you think I’ll have any trouble trying to convince realtors of this app? I know an agent where her photographer does floor plans and I’m assuming he does it the traditional way.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It is quite amazing isn’t it? I don’t think you should have any trouble. In my experience agents aren’t the most tech savvy haha. I would just say your phone gathers the data you need so you can make the floor plan later when you get back to your office.

[@xiaowei_emma]

Great content! Thanks, Mike!!! When scanning, I didn't see you scan the closet in the video. but the final results still showed the closets on the floor plan. Just feel a bit confused. So there is no need to scan the closet?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

No need. I only do it if it’s a large walk in closet.

[@victorluc9501]

Thanks Mike for showing this! I'm a Real Estate Photographer/Architect, just wondering if it's possible to export this into DWG format so that I can customise the plans if needed in my CAD software?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

I don’t believe that’s possible. It’s only downloadable in the formats I mentioned in the video: jog, png, svg and pdf.

[@adrianoguedes7970]

Awesome tutorial !!! Thank You!

[@sergekaminski3030]

How do you deal with detached garage or pool house? Start new scan or just walk to it?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

You could do a separate scan for it or you could attempt to connect it to original scan but not sure if it would work honestly. I’ve never attempted something like that.

[@tomlord3271]

Thanks for turning me onto this service. I have my first one booked for Friday! Dropped your name when my rep reached out

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@DavidFerrett666]

Great job Mike. You have inspired me to give this a good crack. What about plans that encompass the land and show driveways, gardens, etc?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks! Yeah, you can take it outside and scan patios etc as well I haven’t done it myself yet as mostly my clients just want the interior spaces however I spoke to cubicasa about it and they said you can indeed do that as well.

[@visionmediaproductionsnz]

Thank you sir you have made my week!!

[@gordonhutchinson2949]

Very helpful and informative, thanks...

[@charliethecharger]

Great tutorial. I currently use Matterport and curious about trying this easier solution. I must say, they floor plan generated from CubiCasa looks EXACTLY like a Matterport generated floor plan. Down to the doors and text.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

I would definitely recommend switching to CubiCasa. It takes a fraction of the time to create and is essentially the same product.

[@nicksokolov1412]

I must say you videos look very professional, and so It brings me to a question, Do you shoot real estate videos?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks! Yes I do! If you look at the videos on my channel there are a few in there about making real estate videos.

[@2009LDP]

Great app. Game changer! Thanks for sharing Mike! Does it show the overall square footage? Can you colour the floor plan?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

You cannot color it and it doesn’t show the total square footage but you could certainly add that. after you download the files you could easily take the jpg or png into photoshop and add some text.

[@RobFuz]

Actually they do have different templetes that are colored per say, (look on thier website for examples) I talked to a rep yesterday and they said with a phone (iPhone Pro 12) with Lidar it WILL show Square Footage!

[@cmjphoto]

I’ve been playing with this, and an iPhone 12 with Lidar. The overall square footage I’m getting is looking a little “untrustable”. I’ve got one plan I’m working on right now, where it’s WAY off! I’m having troubles wrapping my head around whether or not to trust it. Sadly, as it’s a great tool, the plans look great, but if the dimensions aren’t even close... I see liability issues there

[@RobFuz]

@@cmjphoto I think they said that Lisa’s version is in beta and even offered free scans u til tomorrow when I talked to them. It’s disappointing it’s not working great. I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max and love it though Thanks for the feedback and keep us posted on this thread please

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

@@cmjphoto Thanks for sharing! The Lidar feature literally just launched so I would think it's very possible that there could be some bugs to work out.

[@photopete16]

Very informative. Thank you. Just wondering what format real estate agents usually want the floor plan in?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Typically they just want the jpgs

[@youmarc11]

Thanks Mike.

[@paulaquipel7472]

wow this looks promising time wise. What happens if the property is not well lit? Thanks for sharing

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

I’ve done it in rooms with no lights and still works fine. The light on your phone will kick on

[@kmooney000]

Would you suggest using a disclaimer regarding room measurements? I would hate to be liable for the wrong measurement, but I also don't want to measure each room. Also, I noticed you didn't do closets is that typical?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It says on the floor plan that measurements are approximate so that’s good enough for me. No, you definitely don’t need to scan every closet. CubiCasa is able to figure that out on its own. I only do it if it’s a walk in closet.

[@thedronemediacomvancouver4976]

Wow! Amazing thank you.

[@doubletakephotography4376]

Thank you - it seems so easy. Does the app work on a Samsung (Android) phone please?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yes it does!

[@ShehryarAhmed]

Thank you. Good stuff. Really helpful

[@arjunsharma8624]

awesome, thanks bro

[@GreatBirdOfHope]

So, essentially the Floorplan is measured by the cubicasa app after you scan the property? You don't measure manually? The app does it for you?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yes, that’s correct!

[@GreatBirdOfHope]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Thank you! Great video. I, like so many others am hoping to change careers!

[@randompsualumni]

Do you have any issues with inaccurate measurments or layouts? If so how easy is it to fix?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It’s pretty accurate as far as I can tell but it’s Very easy to fix if you wanted to take your own measurements. Just sign in to your account and you can edit the floor plan and change the measurements to whatever you want.

[@authenticporto1105]

Great and useful video. This works with furniture inside the house?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yes it does!

[@illius85]

is it possible to scan in the metric system and use it with spanish addresses? - edit: a quick check on their homepage made it clear ;)

[@SashaJanzen]

Thank you! :)

[@digitalestates7496]

Thanks for this tutorial! Question, since the results aren't 100% accurate, would you suggest making a rough sketch of the house and doing measurements and apply them to the cubicasa floorplan? I don't have LiDAR.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

If you are concerned about it then I would take measurements. You can edit them in after the fact. A sketch is definitely not necessary.

[@digitalestates7496]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography How else would you remember what the measurements for each wall without doing a sketch? Sorry, new to all this

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

@@digitalestates7496 I just use the notes app on my phone and record them all there

[@digitalestates7496]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography But how do you know which wall it was?

[@05subisti]

This is awesome!!

[@fatheadmediapro]

Gonna try this today. Is there something off with the hallway bathroom on the top floor? It states ; 2'5"x4'9" and that just seems super small.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Possibly. Cubicasa 2.0 came out just after I released this video and it now uses lidar for greater accuracy if you have a phone that can support that. They are definitely working hard on improving it although it is already awesome. Great customer service and highly responsive. Awesome company.

[@fatheadmediapro]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Yeah I saw that. That's what I downloaded, but still don't have a new iPhone with Lidar. Tried it on one of my houses today that still had all the furniture and the garage was crammed with a bunch of crap. I gave it a shot anyway. Let's see how it does! Thanks for the tip! If it does well I will definitely keep using this.

[@Synced_OW]

How well does this work when the home is staged?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Furniture or no furniture, works just fine either way!

[@RobFuz]

Good Question I Had As Well!

[@hopeforthefuturesg]

used it the other day on a staged real estate house...the agent was skeptical because she use to use someone who used a laser measure I guess and said idk about this new way of doing it. when I finished in 5 mins she looked at me like oh I really don't know about all this and kept asking me "I hope this comes out right" next day the plans were spot on to the tee when I saw them...Im 100% confident in this app and believe every real estate photographer should use it and even bigger real estate photography agencies should jump on this new way. Wayyy quicker and it won't fail you only you can fail IT if you can't scan a house like this video just showed you.

[@RBztudio]

Hi mike.. Hope you well mate .. Quick one, does cubicasa able to scan in a fully furnished house ??? Regards

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yes, absolutely!

[@RBztudio]

Does cubicasa also create 3d floor plans???

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

@@RBztudio no it does not

[@smcarmel]

Great video. Where’d you get those stats?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

From CubiCasa's website. They sited the original sources they got them from there as well.

[@smcarmel]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography I’ll have to check that out thanks! Those stats may help sell them, wanted to just see where those stats came from.

[@richardjosephnovak]

When measuring the garage interior with Cubi Casa does the garage roll up door have to be closed or can it be open?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It can be open or closed.

[@Eric-lu8ch]

Hey does it matter what focal length you're at?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

You cannot choose which camera on your phone you are using. The app does it automatically.

[@kittyshanahan9381]

Does it matter when the rooms are filled with furniture?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

No it does not!

[@Ferrari360Spyder]

So there are no measurements to be taken prior to video recording and before submitting final video recording?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Nope, does it all automatically

[@scot.langdon.photog]

Great video, better than CubiCasa training.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks!

[@lizjohnson8350]

Does it calculate the gross living area and basement/garage square feet? I would be using this for appraisal purposes.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

yes it does! It will tell you total area scanned and what's included and excluded

[@mr.amendoza]

Does it work if the home is fully furnished ?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Absolutely!

[@mr.amendoza]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Super, thank you!

[@francis9311]

Can you use something like a Theta Z1 for this?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Nope! Just uses the app on your phone and your phones camera. Super quick and easy!

[@Tyty74628]

What do you say to clients that ask “how do you capture the floor plan?” Do you just tell them you use CubiCasa or do you try to stay way from mentioning specifics

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

I don’t get specific and they rarely ask about it.

[@Tyty74628]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Don't call me surely -- and I am serious!

[@tonyandjeaninehoppers2872]

I just wanted to ask a quick question. What if a house has a lot of furniture in it? Say enough that covers a wall.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It handles it just fine!

[@pixelprovideo3586]

How does it do with a furnished house?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Does fantastic!

[@travelandphotographyinlon7140]

I'm a company and I can't start the app unfortunately 😢😢

[@derhustler1449]

Hey, what do you think about the cubicasa privacy policies? After reading it feels like they are using my data to track me with 3rd Party services for marketing and such. They also track other data which isn’t rly needed for their services. Doesn’t feel legit imo. Am I the product? Not rly b2b professionalism

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

No thoughts really. Been using them for a while and no complaints. Pretty much everyone is tracking your data these days. Nothing overly concerning to me personally.

[@elliotlowe9079]

Can this do exterior too?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It can do outside areas like decks and patios and things like that.

[@chrisiulianophotography3693]

is there no live preview? is it really just record a video, submit, and hope you didnt miss anything? And i notice that you did open the closet doors, so they dont even show up on your floorplan.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yeah, that’s all there is to it. The closets are on the floor plan. If it is like a big walk in closet then obviously you would want to walk in and scan that.

[@MatisMedia]

Hey this might be a boring video idea but why don’t you cover how to file taxes for this type of business. For example whether you choose an LLC or S corporation etc. what are the benefits and when one should do this.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Thanks for the idea! I definitely have some ideas for videos around this sort of thing.

[@MatisMedia]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography Yea would be very helpful ! Thanks again for taking input !

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

@@MatisMedia always appreciate the input!

[@amysewick6929]

That would be amazing!!

[@RobFuz]

If your smaller go LLC, I did :)

[@cookiemom318]

how does it do with crowded rooms?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It handles it just fine!

[@azomkhan4552]

Hei, i'm a cubicasa floor plan producer.

[@brandoncoimbra3474]

Does anyone know if this will work on a house that has furniture inside?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Yes absolutely!

[@behramcooper3691]

Great instructive video. What happens to the video file that is generated by the video camera? I'm sure the file size is huge. What video resolution is best? If the upload fails for some reason, do you have to scan the house again?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

The video file isn’t stored on your device. It gets uploaded to them after you finish and isn’t stored on your phone. There is a resume function if the scan is interrupted

[@jessicastewart9969]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography what video resolution is best? Also, I have an Iphone 13 and ipad pro 11. Are there certain settings on these devices that work BEST (so I don't have to do trial and error over and over again..)? Lastly, it's been a year from this video. I'm sure they've made improvements / upgrades etc. What are those? And is one of them 3D perhaps? And who really is their rival at this point? So exciting!!!

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

@@jessicastewart9969 it’s all done through their app, you have no control over settings. Just open the app and go. 3D virtual tour? No you cannot do that with CubiCasa. Still floor plan only. Improvements over the past year have mainly been refinements and greater accuracy.

[@Tommytoolsqueezer]

I just don’t understand how the app knows the measurements of the rooms by just panning the camera around the house.. seems to easy to be true 🤔

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It’s magical for sure!

[@johncarlostrano2144]

Can you get the floor plan in 3d?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

No, the floor plans are 2D only.

[@wheres_bears1378]

what if the house is furnished?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Works just as well!

[@alexfarrell5504]

Awesome info. Just getting into using CubiCasa. Still trying figure out how much to charge agents for this option.

[@hopeforthefuturesg]

depends where you from but here in CT 125$

[@klayf_]

what if the house is full of furniture ? it doesn't matter?

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Nope, doesn’t matter

[@klayf_]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography thay's awesome

[@kyleschwartz.]

I spent 30 min doing mine for a 2 story with basement, guess i coulda sped up a bit lol

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Haha, definitely can speed that up!

[@SantaKask]

You can charge 150 bucks for a floor plan? Over here they want photos, tours, dolllhouse AND a floorplan for a fraction of that price

[@jefftrowercreative]

This is awesome but at 94% accuracy, there is the chance of not disclosing the accurate dimensions from a realtor's perspective can get someone into trouble. But still awesome.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

You could always take your own measurements and edit the floor plan if necessary if you want to be assured it’s accurate.

[@godofhope]

… Until the clients realise that they can do this by themselves 😊

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

Hasn’t happened yet haha. All my clients remain unaware.

[@cliffordlintonrealestate1404]

What happens when there is furniture in the home. I mean lots of furniture.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

It handles it well!

[@cliffordlinton4500]

@@InsideRealEstatePhotography I meant lots of furniture. I tried it with rooms that had lots of furniture it was s bust.

[@InsideRealEstatePhotography]

@@cliffordlinton4500 I’ve never had a problem with any furnished room or even garages crammed with a bunch of crap. How was it a bust? The scan failed or you saying the measurements were off?

[@maxlasater]

You talk about having an array of services. You should check out Freewater.

[@maxlasater]

Have you use the Matterport axis yet? Or the Blomiky B20 EIS Brushless GPS Drone with 4K 30fps

[@maxlasater]

Is a cheap drone A great practice drone.

[@ww_meysa_be-sammeylaerts6633]

Hi man, i got you skypack. Got more?