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Surprisingly frequently, photos of NYC listings are taken at strange angles and are so blurry or small so as to be useless. I thought this site was going to talk about these sorts of listings. I really don't understand 1) how people take such bad/blurry/small photos or 2) why they choose to use them in listings.
It's one of those websites that have a shelf life of five minutes. It's hilarious! I can't believe those are real pictures taken by real realtors! It wears off pretty quickly. And as is typical for these websites, eventually they get under pressure to keep producing new content even when they don't have any actual bad realtor pics on hand, so they start reaching. What do you expect them to do if the property is still…
In italy the real estate agent can be sidestepped if you know directly the seller, as a consequence the ads they put up are comically balanced to trigger your curiosity but not too much revealing to let you figure out where the place is. Such a terrible experience as a buyer, i’m baffled this whole charade hasn’t been disrupted by tech already.
This is IMO a good example of a situation where tech or lack of it isn't the problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/17/online-esta...
In italy the real estate agent can be sidestepped if you know directly the seller, as a consequence the ads they put up are comically balanced to trigger your curiosity but not too much revealing to let you figure out where the place is. Such a terrible experience as a buyer, i’m baffled this whole charade hasn’t been disrupted by tech already.
In Québec it's starting to be disrupted by duproprio.com where the sellers manages the sale themself. The company takes the pictures & 3d scan and provides legal support. I guess real estate agents are so good at marketing that we believe it's a hard job that we can't do ourselves.
Yes, that's their job and primary purpose. Yes it's hard. Most people have anxiety to even talk to their neighbors without sweating.
Sure there are lots of idiots out there, like in every profession. But those who are not idiots are providing a valuable service. Try selling your house yourself and then let's chat again about how it's not a hard job that you could just do yourself.
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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.
An acquaintance of mine is an FBI investigator and moonlights as a higher-grade Realtor. He would use the same memory card and high end camera both during "stakeouts" for surveillance photos as well as listing photos for the homes he was selling. One day he uploaded the entire contents of the memory card to the MLS on one of his public listings, surveillance photos and all. I'm pretty sure everything was up for a few…
Maybe I can moonlight as a writer in Hollywood
It's one of those websites that have a shelf life of five minutes. It's hilarious! I can't believe those are real pictures taken by real realtors! It wears off pretty quickly. And as is typical for these websites, eventually they get under pressure to keep producing new content even when they don't have any actual bad realtor pics on hand, so they start reaching. What do you expect them to do if the property is still…
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