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Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by cableshaft »

afavour wrote: post #32
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…

Having been through buying a home I think I’ll push back on that a little: our agent knew what was a fair price, what we’d likely be able to push the sellers down to, advised us through the whole process. Rental brokers on the other hand… now they’re absolutely useless and you can sometimes pay astronomical brokers fees just so they can sit between you and the landlord.

Same. Our realtor wasn’t in any hurry to sell us a house (showed us 40 houses over about 7 different days actually) and wasn’t afraid to point out the negatives of the house and what we should be looking for in a good first home and take into consideration if we ever wanted to resell it. I learned quite a bit from him during the process.

He also didn’t mind seeing a bunch of houses because even if we weren’t interested in a house it built up his knowledge about the market and could possibly recommend the house to others.

We did have another realtor that wasn’t like that though when we were considering moving to another state, who mainly was just there to show houses and never pointed anything out, in fact she barely talked.

Didn’t really see the value with her, although shortly after the mortgage rates jacked up fast and made moving less appealing (we looked just before the Fed jacked up interest rates), so we didn’t go any further in the process anyway.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by dwater »

tgv wrote: post #71
aktuel wrote: post #11

This 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.

https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/post/7091754064184...

There's also erotic wall art, which in my mind an agent that gave a shit would have removed for the listing.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by epcoa »

smugma wrote: post #90
jahsome wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire scenario is pretty unbelievable, and played out like an awful Adam Sandler movie. If I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes, I would have trouble believing someone with dueling top credentials such as his could possibly be such an idiot.

Realtor top credentials? That made me LOL.

Yeah, I know right? And the higher end you go has nothing to do with any competence - your clientele becomes more and more like the fucktards that bought into SBF.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by stronglikedan »

convalescindrey wrote: post #51
jahsome wrote: post #16

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…

He surely should have lost his job or worse.

I would have expected his job have guardrails in place to prevent this sort of mishap, like a full audit log and chain of custody of all evidence gathered during these investigations, as well as SOPs on the handling and storage of such evidence.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by moioci »

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…

> me and my wife took LSD on a vacation

Did dropping acid enhance your vacation, or does LSD also stand for something else?

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by jahsome »

smugma wrote: post #90
jahsome wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire scenario is pretty unbelievable, and played out like an awful Adam Sandler movie. If I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes, I would have trouble believing someone with dueling top credentials such as his could possibly be such an idiot.

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.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by alistairSH »

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…

There are plenty of next-to-useless agents, just like there are plenty of next-to-useless software developers.

Our agent (used twice, 15 years apart) was great. Both times, in strong sellers markets, so lots of offers made and rejected. Lots of last second "OMG, just listed, can we see it NOWNOWNOW!"

Very expensive, but so is a house.

Now that I've been through the process a few times, could I do it without? Probably. At the right price, would I use an agent regardless? Absolutely. The old 6% rate seems quite high for a basic sale given online MLS listings, though for a very specific home in a small market, might still be worth that (I'm think lake homes in my neighborhood - rare listings, selling for $50k+ premium over non-lake on same street, often have a buyer lined up before listing, so really hard to actually buy one without an agent who knows people).

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by codekilla »

pg5 wrote: post #27
nvr219 wrote: post #10

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Have you both bought and sold a primary residence without a realtor? Interested to hear about the experience.

Bought current house without agent (very desirable part of Los Angeles). Selling now without agent. If you buy with an agent you put yourself at a disadvantage because the selling agent will need to split the commission (typically 2.5% a piece or so). When you make an offer on a home without a buying agent, suddenly your offer looks a lot more attractive to the selling agent, who is the only point of contact the seller has into what is happening with their property in terms of offers. People wonder how we got our house so cheap—bank on the real estate agents being greedy. They are the worst, period. I have not met a single one who will not double end a deal in 10 years in the LA market. Not sure how the current sale will go, but I will not work with an agent, I’ve dealt with too many to make that mistake.

Re: Terrible real estate agent photographs

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Post by brookst »

MiddleEndian wrote: post #74

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…

I mean I would pay a huge premium for a sunny house in Seattle.
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