This reminds me of a site that I miss that was called Regretsy and I often had tears in my eyes because it was so funny. Bravo!
Terrible real estate agent photographs
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#122Interview 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…
I like that they try to authenticate the photos as being from actual listings. Of course people could generate crazy photos. These are kind of just slightly bad, which makes it interesting. Also, I think the captions add a lot.
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#123Finally, 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 viscerally dislike McMansion Hell. It's so mean-spirited and snobbish. People build themselves homes in the suburbs for their families to live comfortably and safely, and some jerks on the internet act all superior about how they have better taste. It sucks.
I love McMansion Hell. It’s hilarious and I’ve learned from it. People with atrocious taste and enough money to impose it on the world should be exposed to ridicule.
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#124Lots of these types of sites from the past ten years, where the best ones capture the oddity of the photo with a hilarious caption. This one in particular seems really well done.
I expect the next phase of these sites liberally employ the use of AI tools for image generation, i.e. "an apartment with a lawn mower in it".
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#125About 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…
I have to say I found estate agents quite useful (mostly when I was renting). I much preferred dealing with a letting dept. of a reputable estate agency than random landlords. Yes, I had good landlords(funnily enough when I was quite poor in the cheapest accommodation possible), but I had bad ones too. I never had a bad renting experience with an agency. Stuff always got repaired on time, cleaners got hired to clean common areas, electricity and gas got inspected regularly. All those things are not a certainty with random landlords and you only find out once you've moved.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
> me and my wife took LSD on a vacation Did dropping acid enhance your vacation, or does LSD also stand for something else?
Ha! I feel like I’m in the crazy house as you’re the only other person who has asked that…all these well thought out responses that seem completely oblivious to the doozy of an introduction. “So I once played poker with a gorilla and [insert point]” and everybody only talks about the point and not the gorilla??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Taking LSD on a vacation is a pretty mundane thing for many people.
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#127Finally, 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 viscerally dislike McMansion Hell. It's so mean-spirited and snobbish. People build themselves homes in the suburbs for their families to live comfortably and safely, and some jerks on the internet act all superior about how they have better taste. It sucks.
Most suburban homes aren't McMansions.
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#128Generally, the use of wide angle lens is a big nuisance in real estate photos. Everything looks 2x bigger than it really is. I understand they want to show more of the house, but take a few normal 35-50mm lens pics please.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Realtor top credentials? That made me LOL.
I mean to say that among Realtors he was pretty elite, whatever that means. Put another way, he dealt in million dollar listings, not just average family homes.
If you were getting any significant number of million $ homes, why would he keep the day job? Real estate transaction fees are pretty high.
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#130This is entertaining, however in most cases it's not the photos that are terrible.
It's more the captions than the photos. E.g., the one that says "this is where the magic fails to happen", under a drab bedroom with a double bed, is a fairly accurate picture of the current state of that room. It also has a pillow on the bed that says "the best grandma in the world". Not exactly the most exciting thing, making the caption a bit cringy. Unless grandma is a failed witch.
Did you miss the "art" on the walls?