Landlords, do you use YouTube?

If you have a high-speed Internet connection and a digital camera, using YouTube to advertise your rental properties makes (dollars and) sense.

You can use stills to make a slide show video, like this one:



... or, use video to showcase a virtual tour, like this:



(Although, you might want to refrain from narrating your virtual tour with, "Crap ... I just broke the door handle." You'll also want to refrain from pointing out any community-wide problems that you apparently have no plan to fix.)

Prospective tenants like to see as much information as possible about your available rental units prior to their actual visit. Digital cameras are very reasonably priced now, many come with video-shooting capabilities, and it costs nothing to upload videos or slide shows to YouTube. So have you thought about using these resources that are free or that you already own, to advertise? Would love to hear some first-person stories about landlords' or property managers' YouTube advertising and whether or not YouTube has helped your bottom line.