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Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by CHSbeachbum420 »

afavour wrote: post #32
hospitalJail wrote: post #7

About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us. What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors. Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it make…

Having been through buying a home I think I’ll push back on that a little: our agent knew what was a fair price, what we’d likely be able to push the sellers down to, advised us through the whole process. Rental brokers on the other hand… now they’re absolutely useless and you can sometimes pay astronomical brokers fees just so they can sit between you and the landlord.

You do not need an agent to know a fair price lol

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Post by al_be_back »

That's how all photos should be - original, no editing, no staging; If I want excitment, I can Prompt a Generative-AI platform to create mind-bendingly-creative imagery.

I've wasted so many days viewing flats/apartments because the Photos looked amazing, and the actual property was utterly awful.

issues: - narrow/steep Staircases - very old photos (now the place a dump) - fish-eye lenses (or similar) enlarging the space - etc etc et bloody cetera :(

nice post

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by rcme »

hospitalJail wrote: post #7

About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us. What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors. Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it make…

Agents are facilitators of the deal. They are the lubricant that gets the deal done.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by quaddo »

pnut wrote: post #18

Image site that prevents me from pinch zooming on images.

I found I had to tap on the image (long tap, open in new tab), then tap on the image in the dedicated post. Pinch-zoom available after that.

But yeah, I'm generally puzzled when sites disable that very useful feature.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by tokai »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #13
aktuel wrote: post #11

This is entertaining, however in most cases it's not the photos that are terrible.

The title is ambiguous; you could read it as "photos taken by terrible real estate agents".

The byline is "Inexplicably bad property photographs". So its clearly the photographs that are supposed to be bad. But almost all of the photographs are objectively not bad. They are exposed and framed correctly. Showing some (mostly bad) real estate.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by brandall10 »

junon wrote: post #9
mtmail wrote: post #2

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…

This is incredible given some of the listings. The fact one of the pictures is the house on literal fire, coupled with this context, goes to show that some people really don't belong anywhere in marketing or sales.

RE: the fire, problem properties are actually a hot market... flippers love those. In reality that's a fantastic photo for marketing purposes.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by cj »

goolz wrote: post #33
WHYLEE1991 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Yes, and even if you are a “top performer” doing gods work… that does not give you any right to belittle others. I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment and would pay money to see us as a collective (me included) try our hand at something like real estate. I for one know I would fail, but that’s me.

We software engineers already have tried, and failed to the tune of $550 million. Oops.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29087479

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by intrasight »

junon wrote: post #9
mtmail wrote: post #2

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…

This is incredible given some of the listings. The fact one of the pictures is the house on literal fire, coupled with this context, goes to show that some people really don't belong anywhere in marketing or sales.

Not exactly the same but close. There was a listing a couple blocks away from my current house. Nice brick colonial. Listing said "completely renovated". The exterior had been painted. In zillow, you can click a "see it in Street View which I did. The image was of a house gutted by a fire. I remember thinking "how could the listing agent not notice that?" and then "Perhaps there's nothing they can do in Zillow to turn off that feature". Well, the following week the Street View images had been updated. Which resulted in me wondering if there's a special Google hotline to request a driveby.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by dataengineer56 »

hospitalJail wrote: post #7

About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us. What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors. Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it make…

In the South East of England I found that estate agents were very proactive, stereotypical Audi TT-driving widemen who wore suits and had good haircuts and would work hard to make a sale. When it came time to sell then I found them to be lazy and almost useless, taking bad pictures, writing incorrect descriptions and showing no urgency. I guess they figure that the house will sell one way or another and the difference between a good or bad listing might only be a few % of the sale price, which means their cut will only change by £100 or so.

Alternately in the North East then I had a much different experience (albeit only on the buying side) - estate agents were almost exclusively women who answered phones, and viewings were done by the sellers themselves.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by goolz »

cj wrote: post #47
goolz wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and even if you are a “top performer” doing gods work… that does not give you any right to belittle others. I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment and would pay money to see us as a collective (me included) try our hand at something like real estate. I for one know I would fail, but that’s me.

We software engineers already have tried, and failed to the tune of $550 million. Oops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29087479

“The algorithms are fooling themselves…” I loved that comment haha! Great link.
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