Terrible real estate agent photographs

Interview with the author https://www.digitalesbild.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/inexplicably-b...

"KP: Is it important for you that the photos actually originate from real estate marketplaces? If so, how do you verify their origin?

AD: Yes, that’s actually really important, otherwise the blog is just unverifiable user-generated content. If an image is submitted without a link, or no agent’s logo on the image, or I can’t find the source online, I tend not to use it. I’m sent lots of images taken by agents of something funny or shocking they’ve seen in a property that day, but if the image hasn’t been taken for the purposes of marketing the house, I don’t use it."

Finally, somewhere to share my a list of dubious property listings! In Norway agents hire house stylists to make a house look good. Airbeds dressed up to look like somebody just got up, magazine pictures on the wall, etc... often to a farcical level in a rundown house.

On a similar theme is Zillow Gone Wild https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild and McMansion Hell https://mcmansionhell.com/

I'm looking for an apartment at the moment, and I already amassed quite a collection of such photos.

My favourite is an attic divided by a wall of plasterboard, where on one side you have a full bathroom, on the other a bed. Floor panels everywhere, especially next to the tub. Only one window - on the side of the bathroom.

I don't always have good days and I love that there are things like this. Some of those quotes have me rolling.

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