this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You might look at these pictures and suspect these are weird people, but you can’t know that for sure. That is.. until you get to the dinner table with rolling chairs. Then it’s fact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm imagining trying to cut a discount rack steak and it'd be infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Basement has basement? Is that recursive?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

"Honey do you think we have too much brown?"

"Definitely. What we need is a murder carpet. And a single chair, for when we want to watch our victims bleed out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's actually a tub. I think it's just a hole in the floor where the tub used to be. I'm pretty sure that's a cut off water pipe in the back lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Oh my that's even better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For that price where I live that place would be snatched up in a split second, interior be damned.

That said, most of that is cosmetic and can be cleaned up with some elbow grease. Been there and done that, I wouldn’t have a problem with buying it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This place would need gutting down to the studs. There is not a single fixture or cabinet which is anywhere close to acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Unless the utilities are insufficient that might be a little drastic, especially if there’s no damage. Upgrading everything would be the only reason I’d want to demo it all. You could get away with new countertops, sinks, and appliances. Refacing the cabinets. Stripping the wallpaper (gawdamn do I hate doing that shit. Wallpaper is evil, especially when it’s multiple layers deep) and giving it a good prime and paint. The floors almost all need redoing.

Point being it doesn’t have to be stripped down to the bones to make it look pretty good. If you want all the modern cheap trim, core doors, and Home Cheapo tile to make it look like a new tract home for no other reason than to make it look like everything else, sure. Demo away.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Poor homeowner thinking their house is stupid popular with the number of views when really it’s just piling on to make fun of their design choices.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm getting old, man. All I see is yes, it needs some updating, but dropping 100k into it on top of the mortgage would make it pretty nice and it would still be cheaper (and nicer) than my place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But do you look forward to just sort of falling into the tub? Lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Might make for a good prank somehow, but yeah, could also be considered a slight fall hazard, haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

So bad it's good.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

At first (and kind of still) I thought it was a carpeted shower. Even if it's a bathtub, it looks more like a well with carpeted stairs leading up to it.

Maybe a ladder inside would help?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

You're a hero.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anyone wanna move to Iowa with me and go halfsies on this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I’ll pay for the whole thing just to get rid of that damn carpet in the bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Dude, 4 beds, 3 baths, 2,834 sq ft, for $259,900?! My stupid house is 2 bed, 2 bath 1,500 sq ft and it cost me $300,000. I don't give a damn about that garbage bathroom, I'd buy the shit outta that house

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The biggest problem with this house is that it is located in Iowa. If this place was in DC or NYC or Seattle, they'd slap some paint on it and list it for $800k

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

there's lots of more affordable housing in less popular places. this is nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That’s about £206,000. That wouldn’t buy you my 2 bedroom 1 bathroom mid-terrace house here. And by wouldn’t buy I mean you’d be around £100k short. Different fucking worlds.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago (3 children)

But you'd have to live in Iowa.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Ah good point. Nevermind then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Not just in Iowa, but in Marshall Town, the largest small town an hour away from a metro area in central Iowa.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doom dabp a doom bah diggadigga.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

...oh yeah... Bakersfield isn't in Iowa? >.>

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

My thought too. Almost made me try to finally figure out where Iowa actually is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

If you do make sure to take more pictures of that tub for me.

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