kevin mcguire of vht joins us with tips on how to snap the right shot of your home. good to have you on the show today. > > thanks for having me. > > we talk a lot about curb appeal. you say picture appeal just as critical. why is that? > > in today's market everyone is searching online, and if you think about how you would search, you type in where you want to live, beds, baths, and the range you can afford. and then it's an online beauty contest. > > you brought some photos with you, including a before and after shot of a home, and that was done by, what, the homeowner? > > it was either done by the homeowner or an agent that used their own camera or and iphone or something like that. > > and you believe you can really make a big difference. > > absolutely. it does. statistics show that during that online beauty contest, people flip through and say, "no, no, no," and suddenly they stop at the one that strikes them, and that's the one they tell their agent they want to see. > > what are you doing with your photography that the novice is not doing? > > there's work o

kevin mcguire. >> in her her l-4 vertebrae has slid forward on her l-5 vertebrae, and they're collapsedo each other. >> the next step is to get her nerve roots free. >> reporter: the operation involves relieving pressure on the nerves running down jennifer's leg. then realigning her vertebrae and stabilizing the spine. this subject really hits home for me. at the beginning of the year my lower back pain was turning into severe nerve pain, radiating down my right leg. the sciatic nerve into my knee, into my ankle. i couldn't sit. i couldn't sleep. by the end of april i was in the o.r. >> this screw here -- >> reporter: my surgeon is dr. phil snyder, the director of spine surgery at holy cross hospital in maryland. >> your disk collapsed at a point where it's bone on bone in the back of the disk and caused the opening to the frame to become so narrow it was crushing your nerve. >> crushing the sciatic nerve? >> correct. >> to fix it he opened my collapsed vertebrae to free up the nerve. then used an infra-red guided system to insert screws and rods. >> this is a screw that we put into you

kevin mcguire. >> in her her l-4 vertebrae has slid forward on her l-5 vertebrae, and they're collapsedo each other. >> the next step is to get her nerve roots free. >> reporter: the operation involves relieving pressure on the nerves running down jennifer's leg. then realigning her vertebrae and stabilizing the spine. this subject really hits home for me. at the beginning of the year my lower back pain was turning into severe nerve pain, radiating down my right leg. the sciatic nerve into my knee, into my ankle. i couldn't sit. i couldn't sleep. by the end of april i was in the o.r. >> this screw here -- >> reporter: my surgeon is dr. phil snyder, the director of spine surgery at holy cross hospital in maryland. >> your disk collapsed at a point where it's bone on bone in the back of the disk and caused the opening to the frame to become so narrow it was crushing your nerve. >> crushing the sciatic nerve? >> correct. >> to fix it he opened my collapsed vertebrae to free up the nerve. then used an infra-red guided system to insert screws and rods. >> this is a screw that we put into you

kevin mcguire. >> in her her already-4 vertebrae has slid forward on her l-5 vertebrae, and they areressure on her nerves, and that's giving her her leg pain. >> the next step is to get her nerve roots free. >> reporter: operation involves relieving pressure on the nerves, running down jennifer's leg and then realigning her vertebrae and stabilizing the spine. this subject really hits home for me. at beginning of the year my lower back pain was turning into severe nerve pain, radiating down my right leg, the skrciati nerve, into my knee and ankle. i couldn't sleep, couldn't sit and by april i was in the o.r. my surgeon is dr. phil schneider, the director of spine surgery at holy cross hospital in maryland. >> your disc collapsed at a point where there's bone on bone in the back of the disc. it caused the opening, the foramen to become so narrow, it was crushing your nerve. >> crushing the sciatic nerve. >> correct. >> reporter: he opened up my collapsed vertebrae to free up the nerve and used an a guidance system to insert screws and rods. >> this is a screw we put in your spine. >>