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Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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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 sp…

No editing you say? I raise you the funniest listing on the site: https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/post/6876067332328...

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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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…

Honestly, I had this exact same attitude before my last home purchase. We began by assuming that Redfin was good enough. By the time the deal closed, we really appreciated what an experienced agent with at least a vague awareness of real-estate law could do. When the FSBO seller tried to back out at the last minute, our (obviously motivated) buyer's agent was able to set him straight. Without his help, I'm certain the situation would have turned into a nightmare scenario involving actual lawyers.

That doesn't mean I won't try the easy/cheap way first next time, but it does mean I no longer dismiss all realtors as useless parasites who need to be "disrupted" at all costs.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Home inspections that aren't really "inspections" and are just there to grease the skids I hear this a lot on here and I wonder what state people are in or if the laws are somehow different elsewhere. In the states where I do business, there are state mandated checklists of systems and inspectors could be held liable if they don’t show reasonable care and professionalism in gathering the data for their report. The i…

Colorado here and that wasn't the case for me. There were many, and varied things missed in my inspection. The biggest was the entire HVAC system being messed up. The furnace was incorrectly installed, improperly sized for the house, and didn't even have any return ductwork installed. The air flow seemed really bad in the bedroom and so one day I decided to climb up into the attic and take a look. The problem with th…

I had a friend of mine get his house inspected when buying, they never found (so apparently didn't plug a tester into it) multiple loose plugs, didn't note the plumbing line wrapped in an inch thick of electrical tape for a leak, and said the roof was inspected for leaks and "certified" for atleast a year but told 5 years it would need a replacement. When their kitchen ceiling started bubbling a year in I went up into the attic space and it was clear the roof had been leaking since before they bought it by the stains and mold it left on the wood. It was a complete joke of an inspection, and what makes it worse is none of that was hard to access. The attic space was accessible from the garage area with no ceiling and was easily walkable with 10 ft+ height, the loose plugs were in the living room and in plain view right when you walk in, and the taped up pipe was 15 feet into a concrete basement with a mere glance upward. Not to mention the other laundry list of items that weren't broken really but should have been noted by an inspector doing their job.

They tried to get the inspector for the obvious bullshit roof inspection but after getting ran around multiple times to the point of needing to hire lawyer to go any further. But eventually dropped it when some roofing company came by and offered to do the roof for "free" through their insurance because of supposed hail damage in the area that basically replaced half the roofs in the town. That too was probably a scam on the insurance by the roofers because we never had big enough hail for damage, but they weren't going to complain about a free new shingle job.

TL;DR Don't just grab any random inspector, and especially never take recommendations from anybody connected to real estate.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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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 sp…

Photos are basically showing you if the property is worth inspecting by hand. I've seen it go the other way too, terrible photos and a fine place.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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post #301

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 sp…

No editing you say? I raise you the funniest listing on the site: https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/post/6876067332328...

This looks like a sofa took a selfie

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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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…

Realtors thrive on nepotism though and double ending jobs with their friends or even themselves. There's plenty of homes that are bought and sold without hitting any public listing site. Agents just might call up another agent the know and go "Hey I got a buyer for a 3br in these neighborhoods, you guys got anything coming up?" and vice versa. Without an agent you are locked out of that side of the market and probably at a serious disadvantage, overpaying for property that didn't manage to sell through this "premarket" for whatever reason which could in fact be for red flag issues.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure we're looking at the same photos... for some of them, sure, you're right. But many are bad photos like those you mention, except more egregious (hence they deserve the place on that site). The "garden" in one picture is rather awful, but why put that plastic chair facing against the wall to make it creepy on top of that? Why take a picture half naked (or not half - thankfully we'll never know) in front o…

When my sister bought her house, she felt like the current owners were actively trying to make it unappealing. Weird photos (not as bad as these, mind), staying home during open house, etc. Turns out, the wife was trying to make it unappealing. She didn't want to move, but her husband did. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that was the case in at least some of these photos.

If the husband was determined to move, that just meant they would get less money, not that they wouldn't sell. Oh well

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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When I moved to Seattle back in 2011 and was looking for a place to rent, I noticed that almost all the photos across multiple listings looked like they were paintings or architectural renderings or something. I could not figure out what was off about them. 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…

FWIW: NWMLS will fine agents if the photos have been “too” doctored… adding some blue sky is generally considered ok, but anything that hides a material defect or camouflages the actual attributes of the house is a no no.

Does photoshopping furniture all over the flooring and walls count? I've seen plenty of that, seems standard actually since now you don't need to pay for staging.
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