this post was submitted on 19 May 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] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Everyone laughing at the repairs to your tower until the Mong horses return - and theirs still aren’t done because they were waiting to source the right Welsh stone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I kinda like it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

People are such perfectionists when it comes to buildings. I love this image; the patchwork aesthetic needs less hate. Yeah it looks silly, but why should it look serious? I wouldn't be upset if a building built today were to have an awkward attachment added in 500 years that was built to the design standards of that time period.
Somebody showed me recently the rebuild of the Augusteum building of the University of Leipzig which had a hyper-modern redesign like 180 years after it was first built (look it up, it's pretty cool). And the building in this post is like a lower-effort, more earnest version of that idea. Is it bad real estate? Sure. But it's good architecture. "Authenticity" be damned.

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

Basically, do you want an abandoned ruin rotting away in a field, or do you want a building that people will continue to live in and take care of into the future?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This comment made me partially re-evaluate my opinion of this building

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Seems like someone used galvanized square steel, screws from aunt and eco friendly wood veneers

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It would have been nice if they pointed out which part was renovated so I didn't need to scour the picture to find it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I need a useless red circle to find it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I will write a detailed alt next time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Gentrification is getting out of hand.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where the President of the HOA lives

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I was thinking: whichever 'lord' owns the tower - that's where his mother-in-law lives.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I believe that’s what they call “postmodern architecture”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I'm kinda with you. I hate that we've done this to what is basically a large historical artifact, but if this was all new construction... I could be into this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But would you want to live there?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well duh, have you seen the awesome medieval tower next to it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah it's awesome! But have you seen the blue-siding shack attached to the side of it?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

No worries, I hate it enough for both

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

UK server, OK. Fine. But OP has never been to Pennsylvania in the US. Most houses over a hundred years old look like this: you can see the generations that have lived in it. First it's stone and mortar; then there's a wood addition ca. the early 1900s; then there's a more modern addition ca. the 50's or later. There's one property that was briefly famous as it came up in Zillow that had 5 clearly distinctive styles and technologies worth of additions on it; it's like every generation added another room with whatever was in style at the time. I can't find a picture, but it was hideous.

I don't know if it's common all along the mid-Atlantic, but it is super common in Pennsylvania.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Prime location, good bones.

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

"what's next, renovation?"

"AND COVER UP THESE BONES?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Grover Tower lookin ass

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

This makes me want to sing the Tetris theme.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Please tag NSFL, my poor eyes aaagh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

afaik castles have a recurring problem where rich people buy them saying "we're going to restore this and keep it authentic" but then as soon as they find out the price of doing that they backtrack and usually end up not doing anything. But I would prefer doing nothing to doing this.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks like something from Monty Python and Holy Grail

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Well it was filmed in the Scottish Lowlands not a million miles away (48 miles from Doune Castle).

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