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Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by ansible »

mjb wrote: post #86
altacc wrote: post #4

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 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.

> ... or their families to live comfortably and safely, ...

Well, it is safe-ish, in that street crime is usually not too high.

But living in car-centric suburbs, with a lack of common, public spaces and physical and social isolation isn't really comfortable, or that good for your mental and emotional health.

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Post by ffgjgf1 »

alistairSH wrote: post #101
rplst8 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reply was a bit harsh, but let's not act like the real estate industry isn't riddled with skeezy practices. 1) Home inspections that aren't really "inspections" and are just there to grease the skids 2) Buyer's agents don't have a fiduciary duty to protect the buyers. 3) Pricing "knowledge" that is typically public info, just locked behind access restrictions 4) predatory lending practices It's a very incestuous…

Totally agree on the inspection. They're next to useless - a friend bought a home a few years ago, super-weird water heater/HVAC system (co-mingled, WTF), never mentioned by the inspector. When it broke a year later, it was a VERY expensive fix, and I think they might have recovered a few hundred $$ from the inspector (on a many thousands repair). An agent is only getting 5-6% of the home value (assuming no split wit…

5-6% of the purchase price still seems like a huge amount. Of course I don’t really know how many houses decent agents tend to sell per year.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

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…

When I bought my first house, my agent was invaluable. He certainly helped me avoid a bunch of bad decisions.

He never actually said "don't buy this house" at any property we looked at, but he would point out things I wouldn't have thought about like, "it's nice, but I wonder if there's a lot of noise from that street later in the day when people are home from work" or "I guess you wouldn't want to play with marbles in here" (house with a sloping floor likely due to foundation shifting) and a lot of other remarks to point out things that I, as an apartment dweller, wouldn't have considered.

I may have gotten that first house entirely due to him: I wanted to lowball the offer, but he pointed out that that neighborhood was a hot area and the house was very reasonably priced. I later found out that there was actually a slightly higher offer than mine, but since I had offered the asking price and came in first, the owners thought it was only ethical that they sell to me.

I've certainly met useless RE agents since, but there are definitely some that earn their percentage! The guy who sold my last house was also a builder and he fixed a problem that would have held up the sale on his own dime!

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by fallinghawks »

brandall10 wrote: post #46
junon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hot market indeed

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Post by _ea1k »

robertlagrant wrote: post #114
jandrese wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't go quite that far. They also handle the paperwork and coordination with the other agent, which is not a trivial job. It's highly questionable if the value they add is worth 5% of the gross sale price of the house, especially in our amazingly inflated markets, but few if any agents seem interested in working at hourly rates.

In the UK paperwork is mostly done - surprisingly slowly - by lawyers.

Same in the US, and for a separate set of fees on top of the realtors 5-6%.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by muxator »

pjc50 wrote: post #176
muxator wrote: post #170

This site is impossible to visit on my setup. Firefox 114, default tracking protection, uBlock origin with default settings. I am not interested in spending time debugging it, and I can live without seeing those photos. Better spend that time whining here, where I suppose the ratio of web developers is high: what happened to web development? How come is it so complicated to write a site that displays some photos with…

Surprisingly, it's a frontend for Tumblr, with the "fuseblue.com" theme.

Thanks for explaining.

I never really used Tumblr, I just know it's the site Yahoo bought many years ago instead of Netflix.

The website in this submission is probably just a low technical effort site. This would explain its flaws.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by LandR »

The one with the all the white / biege colour books, I'd actually love to have all my books on my bookshelves with the same colour. I like all my books, but I think it's quite ugly with how different all the colours are.

Obviously I'd still want to have the name of the book on the spine though. Or to be able to have it colour coded by genre or something, just something more aesthetically pleasing really.

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