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This is entertaining, however in most cases it's not the photos that are terrible.
I was really hoping it was going to be photos of how silly real estate agents look in their profiles.
In my opinion, if anything, what makes these pictures less than ideal is the property itself which has nothing to do with the real estate agent. It's actually a net positive for potential buyers seeing all aspect of the object - what else should the agent do, hide unfortunate corners? Right, like anyone who actually cares to go and look at the property before buying it (so almost everyone) would not see these things…
A friend pointed out that the lighting was off because every single one was photoshopped with one of a few pictures of a sunny blue sky with just a few clouds in the background, despite likely having been taken on a grey, fully cloudy day.
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…
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Also, be really good looking.
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…
>An acquaintance I know is an FBI investigator and moonlights as a higher-grade Realtor. I really, really, really tried my best, but the only appropriate i could think of was "Fucking hell!". Are you sure they're not a realtor masquerading as a....well, at this point, who gives a shit?
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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.
It reminds me of IT recruiters in the UK a few years back: [1] sums up the situation very well and applies just as much.
[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293...
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…
Ever looked at a property website? There's an infinite supply.
Myself, I prefer bad estate agent written copy; much of it is comically awful.
But I remember the days where the agent would stand at the end of the driveway and snap a polaroid. Invariably these were the "garage forward" kind of house, which from that perspective looked like a big garage door with a house kind of attached in the back, in a by-the-the-way fashion. Awful. Of course that vintage of house (mid 80s) kind of was that way.