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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] 75 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Somebody got a smoking deal on a ridiculous quantity of siding.

With all those hard surfaces and open spaces, the echoes in this place must be unreal.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

That’s why they carpeted the bedroom walls.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The current owner is the only guy in North America to not have a podcast.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This is the first time I've seen a "it just keeps getting worse" post and actually agreed. I went in n just expecting terrible siding, then the inside of the house, then the chairs, then the lights, then more chairs, the carpet, the exposed wiring, why are there chairs there?, it just kept escalating. Thank you for this.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I concur. Most "it gets worse" style posts have one or two odd things. This one truly delivered.

It's a 3 bedroom (all queens?), 5 bath house with seating for 20. It's either some crazy orgies at night in only a few beds, a business call center kind of place, or they had massive family gatherings with alarming regularity. Of course there's always the cult option, which means it could also be "all of the above".

There is the wall of family photos on shelves... Maybe family get together center?

What's up with the industrial scale sewing equipment?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I made my wife look at it, then I had to go back because she noticed even more insanity. It just kept getting worse every time we went through the pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

I lost it when I saw that the siding continues inside. They really went for that one texture look.

Also the through-wall Air Conditioner in the shower????

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

What do you mean I can't install siding on the inside... It's called "siding" not "outsiding" it goes on every side!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I was really disappointed that in Exterior Features there was Vinyl Siding listed but it wasn't also listed on the Interior Features. I would've lost it at that.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

There's a through-wall box fan just outside another shower.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Looks like it could be easily transformed into a swinger club. And you could power wash the whole facility after the weekends.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 42 points 3 months ago

And since it’s Arkansas, that’s fun for the whole family!

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Few windows for outsiders to look in. Many, many cheap tables to eat at.

Maybe just polygamy?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Here's my two shots in the dark to explain this monstrosity:

Retired couple buys one of those workshop/huge garage and apartment combos. They decide to turn the workshop into an event space for weddings.

They add a few conveniences for the wedding party, like a couple extra bedrooms to get ready, and a black and red honeymoon suite. The decor is hideous because retired wife is old af and it looks good to her. Retired husband sucks at DIY, like electrical and room layout, but doesn't let small things like planning get in his way.

Grandson works at a siding company that mainly does B2B installs and often has leftovers. Sometimes he grabs other overage from the project after talking to other tradies, like a banister here and there. Maybe an orphan cabinet base.

Grandson wants to start his own siding business one day so he is happy to practice installs on the wedding rental building.

Alternative: Fundie church does secret child marriages here and the couple that maintains the property is allowed to live there as well. The ugliness of the property is because they're purely utilitarian and just need a facade of wedding shit because it's not really about the wedding as much as it's about keeping it on the down-low.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is the church still active?

If it's recently defunct or relocating, I'd bet this is the parsonage, assembled on a shoestring budget from the church offering, and using whatever materials they could source as absolutely cheaply as possible.

I'm guessing that either a member of the congregation or family connection of same is a siding guy and was able to get all of this for free or obscenely cheap from somewhere, or was able to get it donated, and rather than waste it or decline what they couldn't put on the outside, they decided to save money on drywall and paint and put it inside as well.

Same with the furniture, etc. this just reeks of "super tight budget but with excesses in certain odd specific areas because we got it donated".

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is that carpet on a railing?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Carpet on the walls!!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Holy hell, this entire interior looks like it could be hosed down, time after time, because it's made for repeated indoctrination/orgy/murder of cults with easy cleanup. Unbelievable price, though...

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

“Has your cult outgrown mom’s basement? Do I have the place for you!”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Siding guy: I've completed the outside of your house you want anything else done?

Owner: Sure, go nuts.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Me: What's wrong with siiiiiiideholyshititsinthehouse!!!!!

EDIT: The carpet did me in. I am dead. R.I.P. me.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Holy this is a good one thanks OP

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"One of a kind"

Thank goodness.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Did anyone notice that the garage interior photos show the misaligned joists about 3/4 of the way back over the truck/jimmy?

I'm not entirely sure they're actually attached to anything.

Oh, and no code inspector ever saw that wiring.

Edit: oh, and the never ending AC unit chaos. They even vent multiple units into the enclosed garage! That just kind of overheats it and returns the entropy to the house?

Favorite AC unit placement: in the shower with its own little upper tier curtain.

Second favorite cooling feature: the structural box fans in the walls.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At first, I thought this must be some abandoned barracks or aircraft hangar that got retrofitted into a private residence, but then I saw it was purpose built in 2004.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

but then I saw it was purpose built in 2004.

Holy crap

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This should have been entirely furnished with those cheap white plastic patio chairs and tables. I seen some, but whoever built this clearly can add much more.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

I love the variety of chandelier's and ceiling fans all next to each other

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wifi and cell phone reception may suck.

Also, I have doubts about the insulation. One can see it in the garage, but one can also see sunlight through the wall.

Like someone chose the cheapest option at every option, and nevet considered the overall best experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Who needs insulation when you have 12 air conditioners‽

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Two things:

  1. Archer "Realty"
  2. I've seen plenty of the reverse, but this is the first time I've seen someone make their house with the Doom level editor.
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Legit the worst house I've seen on this community

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Light fixtures looking like I placed them in the sims

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Looks like a cult compound. Wild

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That. Fucking. Wiring.

This is a fire waiting to happen, I can't imagine what's in the walls.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only way it would work is if the inside was a viking longhouse.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

@OP - This one is truly special. Thank you so much for this gift to we plebes. Wow.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

What the FUCK

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Whoa, there must have been a blow out sell on office chairs. Who needs normal chairs when you can have an office chair?!

Also, no central heat and air, window units... In that massively hot tin box.

Also I forgot to mention the floor to wall carpeting.

Man this place has it all! What a steal! lol

edit: I totally missed it, but did anyone clock the gigantic quilt sewing machine in slide 34?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Babe wake up, new backrooms just dropped

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is a literal fucking nightmare. I'd snap if I was tripping in there

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 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 3 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

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