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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.
Posting guidelines.
Posts in this community must be of property (inside or out) listed for sale which contains a terrible element. “Terrible” can refer to:
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the photo itself (finger over the lens, too far away, people in the shot, bad Photoshop, etc.)
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the property (weird layout, questionable plumbing, unsound structure, etc.)
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the interior (carpeted bathrooms, awful taste interiors, weird mannequins/taxidermies/art, inflatable pools indoors, etc.)
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the actual listing itself including unusual descriptions and unrealistic pricing. However, this isn’t a community to discuss the housing market in general. This is a comedic community - let’s keep it light.
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Photos can be sourced from anywhere and be any age, but please check they haven’t already been posted.
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Censor any names/contact details of private individuals.
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Mark the post NSFW if it includes nudity or sensitive content
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I feel like there should be separate communities for bad buildings and bad pictures of buildings.
Thank you for your feedback. Personally, I’m inclined to stick with how we are, a mix of both. What I think is key to this community is the humour - photos of properties for sale, that are so bad they’re funny.
A “bad photos of buildings” community isn’t going to be particularly interesting to my mind. Who wants to look at just crappy photos? This isn’t really a crappy photo itself, but it’s a terrible photo for an estate agent to use to try and sell a house. The fact that a realtor took a photo of a tree, and presumably thought it was good for it to be published online in order to sell a house is funny to me. Wtf were they thinking?! That said, I don’t need to see 20 posts like this.
As for a “photos of bad houses” community… I don’t really want to be the judge of what’s bad. Everyone has different tastes, and we’ll end up seeing an awful lot of low cost housing, almost like poverty porn. I’d rather the focus again be on the humorous aspect of the photo - a sunken bath in a carpeted living room, a hot tub in the kitchen, a sofa in front of a bidet, a toilet up 5 steps… all of those are weird and amusing to me. That doesn’t mean the house is bad, it’s just a funny aspect of a house for sale.
But, as I said in my stickied mod post, I am open to all feedback and suggestions and I’d like this community to be steered by common consensus. Why don’t you make your suggestion in the comments of that post where others can weigh in with their thoughts? It’s easier for me to moderate if meta discussions are all in one place, and people who agree with you are probably more likely to see your comment there - if they don’t like this kind of photo they probably haven’t read the comments so the discussion could be skewed. If enough people what a change in posting guidelines, I’m more than happy to put it to a vote and make changes based on the outcome.