Sunday, April 25, 2010

What were they thinking?

Real estate agents do some dumb things when they list a house for sale. Setting aside the insane amount of typos, misspellings and misused words, we are still left with a huge number of crappy pictures. Blurry pictures, crooked pictures and over or under exposed shots are not the exception. I often wonder why they can't take a few minutes to clear off a counter top or island to get a better shot. Or why they don't turn off the television or wait for someone to step out of a room before they shoot.

I guess this agent wanted us to know that everyone had been cleaned up...
(Please excuse the size of the photos, I couldn't figure out how to make them bigger without distorting them).

Pretending to dust the ceiling fan...



Sort of cleaning the oven...



Cleaning the toilet (was this necessary?)...



Standing with the vacuum cleaner (all the vacuuming in the world won't change that ugly carpet)...



The pool gets cleaned too!



And yes, these pictures are what a buyer sees when they look at this listing. Amazing (shaking head in wonder).

1 comments:

Burgh Baby said...

When we were selling our townhome, I ran out and bought a fish-eye lens so I could take the photos. It's amazing how real estate agents get by when their photos are SOOO awful.

That's probably the only time that house has seen so much cleaning . . .