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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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It's bad from the outside, but the inside is so much worse. And it gets worse the more you look at it. So many details that are just so awful. Living in this "house" is probably miserable.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Babe, I got this siding for a steal. It'd be stupid to not use it inside.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

This explains a lot about our country

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Property Type: Residential

Yes, that generic downstairs with the massive number of tables and no living area, and the large closet upstairs with all the costumes, yes, surely this house was only used for people to live in, uhn-hunh, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Definitely didn't move tons of boxes of Bootleg ebay product out of there, nope. In any case, I'll take dinner at the fifth dining table today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

This looks like an AI was asked to design a house. All the basic elements are there, but nothing makes any sense.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

You sure this isn't a beginner Satisfactory project?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Putting aside the wtf of it all, looking at the house subjectively, it would be a decent, possibly great, starter home.

The layout isn't entirely insane, there's a ton of space inside. It looks like the framing isn't half bad.... To my untrained eye, it has good "bones". The interior design and aesthetic choices are questionable at best, even for the most "normal" looking areas, but buy a case of beer and invite your friends over for a weekend and get most of the interior ripped down, and drywall installed and painted, and you're off to a good start.

Don't get me wrong, it would be a monster task. 4000 sq ft of siding to rip out and replace? Hell. That sucks.

Replace a lot of the fixtures, mainly all the stupid ceiling fans, especially the ones so high up they won't do anything, install some forced air HVAC or at least upgrade the Air conditioner situation and you would be having a grand time living in this place.

I'd probably rip off most of the external siding too and replace that with something a bit more interesting too, but with all the money you'll save by this being so inexpensive (compared to more palatable houses that are similar in size) and you'd get yourself a pretty nice place.

That being said, as is, this place is at best, a lot of questionable choices, at worst, pure nightmare fuel.

My partner thinks it's a converted chicken coop. I can't say that they don't have a point on that one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's no room for insulation above the ceiling, no place to run ducts for central HVAC, and the rooms above the 2,000 sq ft garage will be extra hard to keep thermally regulated. This house is super expensive to keep comfortable, and I would bet the window AC units are not up to the task of regulating indoor humidity and the whole structure is a moldy biohazard.

I agree with your partner. This structure looks like it was originally designed for agricultural use. Maps show there's a farmers field a few lots up the road.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It just looks like there's barely any natural light in the areas where you'd want it. The house interior, aside from everything else that's wrong with it, feels dark and cramped. A recipe for depression.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

To balance things out, there’s something to laugh at wherever you look. Indoor siding. Carpeted walls. Office chairs in the “cafeteria”. The list goes on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Any one else notice the shower controls OUTSIDE the shower?!

That's also quite a labyrinth of a front door patio

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The idea of shower controls on the outside is solid if you have a thermostatic shower valve, that way you can turn your shower on & have it be at the right temp for you before you get in.

However in this instance it just adds to the bizzaro feel to the while thing

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

The liminal backroom/vaporwave aesthetic hallway in the master bedroom is what really got me. Finally numbed to the siding, office chairs, and carpet and then the hall of mirrors comes in to seal the deal.

Does Arkansas just not have building codes? Surely they can't actually sell it like this. There is no way you can bring this monstrosity up to code for less than the cost of burning it down and building something else.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Oh wow, a walk-in closet? Singular.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

“You’ll never run out of room for your victims clothes - I meant VISITORS. VISITORS clothes. I’m so sorry. Hey, what are you doing with that axe?”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why are the shower knobs outside the shower tub ughhh.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So much weirdness. The box fans inserted into the walls. On Pic 38, the shower faucets are outside of the shower itself. All the ceiling fans. The "conference room" or perhaps church space. In Pic 28, using the carpet as "wallpaper," and similarly in 29, the carpet for the top surface of the half wall. Using PVC pipes as handrails on stairs or in the closets and hanger bars. And it looks like the vehicle in the garage might actually be a hearse!

Good find!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

By time you reach the carpeted walls it's actually slightly jarring for there to be such an unexpected change like that. I'm pretty sure the black room was carpet as well, but it could also just be pixelation, I'm not 100% sure.

Didn't notice the other odds though, was too horrified by the walls and ceilings .. and then after the carpet, the garage.. my goodness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

What a horrible day to have eyes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Outside it looks like a barn, inside the dining area looks like some kind of diner but with mismatched furniture.

With the themed bedrooms, I'm going with The Tackiest Whorehouse in Arkansas.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

This looks like something I built in the original Sims game when I was... idk, 9?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looks like a novice or idiot did the siding. It appears instead of overlapping each piece of siding and hiding the line by varying the distances they just slapped some j channel on and called it good. I bet that siding leaks like a sieve.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

If it wasn't built in 2004 I'd almost be sure they got their building plans from chatgpt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

"Hiiiiii, welcome! Don't be afraid-come in!

We like to call ourselves a family. Noooo judgements.

Anyhow. Dinner at six, and we shall commence the baphomet ceremony promptly at eight. Did you bring the goat? I can't believe how often I have to remind people-the goat! No goat. No ceremony.

Anyhow. You'll find a robe in the walk-in closet upstairs. First left.

Have a good stay!!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

This is like living in a fire station or a movie set

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

It's like someone wanted to make a detailed 3D model of their house, but by the time they got to texturing they had lost interest in the project.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Is this in Waco?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That place and it's taxes are insanely cheap.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah...because it sucks to live there, lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Did this housr have measles when it was younger? And then didn't get a shingles vax?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Did anyone else notice that all the light switches and outlets are horizontal and at the same level through the entire building?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Babe! You are not going to believe the DEAL I got on this siding.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That seems like a lot more than 4000 SQ ft. There are about a million rooms in those pictures.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

According to public records, its 5,904 sq ft, but about 2,000 sq ft is garage

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