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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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For the discerning homebuyer/vampire who hates the idea of natural sunlight!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-E-Puma-Ln-Lincoln-KS-67455/128506191_zpid/

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

this stunning shouse

Is that a typo or are they pointing out that it's a house inside a shed?

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No joke but aside from the lack of windows, this place is perfect. Well, windows and Kansas..

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Isn't that in tornado alley? I wouldn't dare. It's like a giant trailer, any tornado will be drawn to that like a magnet.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...only three hundred grand for a house which violates the f*ck out of international building code, fire code, and life safety code; nice!..

...what are the odds of even more egregious DIY violations of electricial, mechanical, and plumbing code which we can't see in casual realtor photos?..

Hillbilly Hilton

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I'd live there, get a few more crosses and lazy boys. Maybe some animal heads and more carpeting

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great economic housing and storage idea. Got the land for cheap I'm sure. Giant steel building probably one of the cheapest options you could go for. Sweat equity just interior walls.

Way to go whoever you are!

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have no idea how hard it is wire, plumb, heat, cool, and add rooms. My one Daughter of mine as a FIL who has been a successful contractor. And they did something similar to that, building a house out of a pole barn and while mostly happy with the results so far, it was not as ideal as first thought in the end. The heating bill is insane with those crazy high ceiling.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Surely you would only heat up the smaller living areas

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

This looks like if an alien made a hamster cage for humans. The little plastic 'home' and all

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The wall of crosses is weird. What is the thing Jesus would least like to see if he returned?

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it keeps zombies out unless they're explicitly invited in. Or maybe that was vampires? Which one is Jesus again?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

i mean turning blood into wine does feel vampire-adjacent, but he did also rise from the dead so.. both?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I don't understand this, but I also don't hate it.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally, someone with a good grasp of the proper ratios when comes to house space vs garage/workshop space. Chuck in a few exterior windows and I would be fine with something like this.

I would be checking how much weight above the living space can handle though - I suspect it might not be up to suitable floor loadings for workshop usage.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've installed Internet once to a warehouse like this that had a full on house built inside of one corner of it. Like we totally thought it was pretty normal, since we mostly installed for farms and the highest point to install the radios was usually a barn, shed or warehouse like this. But then when we went inside to run the cable, it was like a movie set. They even had a fake lawn.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It probably was a set for video productions. Of a certain kind.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i kno it's evil to say, but when people genuinely have an american flag on their property i immediately assume it's a shidpost or at the very least ironic. but it's not, which makes it fun.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nope. These days it's an indicator that you're almost certainly dealing with a magat. Occasionally you'll see an American flag with a pride flag or something similar below it and know that it's ironic.

Used to be that mostly only ex military or similar would fly a flag. Some folks would fly a flag from their porch for happy fireworks day or memorial day if they had family that died in a war. You almost never saw anyone with an actual flagpole in their yard. Flagpoles were for schools, government offices and such.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

That's quite interesting, here in sweden at least (but i'm pretty sure the same applies to all the nordics at least) flagpoles are and have been very normal (though not super common), but they basically only ever fly the little triangular version of the flag. Basically a very very big and expensive decoration.

[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 7 points 1 week ago

My family had a flag in our front yard for the first 10 years of my life, because my dad’s brother was in Afghanistan for the majority of that time. That said, we certainly wouldn’t put one up now :/ it’s been tarnished without question.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to see American flags come out on or during the week of Independence Day or Veteran's Day or something similar where it was not unusual for people to put their national pride on display. That stopped happening when some people took it too far after 9/11 and started making patriotism into their whole identity and used it as a smokescreen for their overt bigotry. Now it's almost seen as a tacky or gaudy thing to do and I get why.

But yeah, if someone has a full-blown flagpole installed on their front lawn, they are 100% virtue signaling. Big MAGA-weirdo vibes.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, 9-11 was the beginning when I think about it.

Used to be you had a few, mostly paranoid conspiracy theory types, that even conservatives kind of looked down on and felt sympathy for them being mentally unwell.

It has morphed into this crazy fascist religious cultural identity shit that we have now. Fucking pod people. Sucks.

This shit is normal now and crazy conspiracy theory mentally unwell people are a big chunk of the population.

The really crazy thing is that Osama basically won. Him, 9-11, and the far right like Limbaugh infected the national psyche with something that may be terminal.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Holy shit that crucifix wall on image 32 is insane

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're just crosses, I don't see any Jesuses.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better hope a cat gets him before he finds another Jesus and they breed. Then you've got an infestation.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I think that's what pushed it from unusual to over the top for me. I knew this community would get a laugh.

As someone who lusts after Dirk Pitt's studio apartment over a private hangar, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I can finally start an anti-vampirism compound. It is already fully stocked with crucifixes.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I can see the appeal. I also like sunlight though, so might have to put some windows in.

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