this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Good dog included in the price.

The dog in question

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

How much for just the dog?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Where is the alcohol cabinet

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Any cabinet, they're all for alcohol!

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

I can smell the tobacco from here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like the chandelier, is it possible to have all three bulbs on at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably yes, although a lot of cheapskates will unscrew some of them when not in use to save energy.

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

I don't think bulbs use a whole lot of energy these days. A 10W LED bulb would cost $14 per year to run constantly (US pricing). An old 60W bulb would be $83 per year in comparison.

But there's probably no reasoning with someone who decorated that room.

Math:

LED bulb power = 10W

Electricity cost in US = $0.161 per kWh

Running 1 bulb 24 hrs a day = 0.24kWh

Price per day = $0.038

Price per year = $14, running 1 bulb constantly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Huh, that's actually more expensive than I'd have thought for a single bulb, even taking into account that you'd probably only be running it for a quarter of the time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

There's a rug on the wall. I didn't think they know what a tapestry is.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Wall rugs are hung for two reasons:

  • Insulation, both for temperature and sound, back when other insulating materials were unavailable.

  • If a rug is particularly expensive, they are hung to prevent them from getting dirty, especially if the owner's feet get dirty from farmwork.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wall rugs are a slav thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Walls made of rugs are a nomad thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There were a fair amount of formerly nomadic people in the Soviet Union and I'm guessing there was some cultural exchange

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

VGH the nomad spirit

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

But I bet the acoustics are amazing

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

the soviet apartments typically had cinderblock walls with no insulation and drafty mortar gaps. the heating systems were centralized boilers which usually were not operational/operating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Soundproofing and insulation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like individually every item in this room looks nice but when it's all shoved together like this it's sure...intense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Post-soviet maximalism is a thing, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I looked at it again and I don't know what to say...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's literally all moldy. At least that's what those sofas look like. (we had some similar sofa looking similar to this and just pzr a blanket over it to make it liik nicer)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I have to be honest and I think I just out and out like it. It's mixed patterns are rather chaotic, but I love the attempts at extravagance. I'd love that front room, compared to my dull rental one.

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

Looks like the house of one of those rich Russians that live pretty much everywhere in my neighborhood lol.

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

I feel like I remember this house and my grandma taking me there. This is a weird experience for me

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

You are not in this alone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The contact details belong to a real estate agent, so I think I am not breaking rule #7, but I will blur them out of any future pictures just in case.

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

You ever go through a Russian amateur porn phase and remember all the fine rugs hanging above the beds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Gonna muffle the sex sounds somehow, grandma's sleeping behind that wall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I feel like you could kill several fallout ghouls and the meat piles would just blend in.