That is a million dollar home?

You are right, the photos are a nightmare. The dog photo is a classic.

JS

More distractions, I’m in. I can’t find the one with the piles of dirty laundry on the floor that i posted a few months ago but I’ll keep looking. Here’s an excellent example of staging. there are two pages of pics, 21 in all. It doesn’t look like someone lives there, it looks like someone is camping.

http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=508748

Note the free builder supplied pull down shades, the pictures leaning against the wall and the table with no chairs (two shots of that), three pictures of rooms, all matresses on the floor. All told 3900 sq ft and the entire contents can fit nicely in the bed of a full size pick up. The builder is selling this house for 500k right now, neighbors are listed in the 400’s but, mmmm, I think they’ve done so much with the place and the 710k list price makes me want to pick up the phone and schedule a viewing.

O.K. this one violates the low end caveat but take a look at the back yard photos. The time it took the photographer to walk to three different angles of this backyard oasis, couldn’t they move the random chair, ice chest in the center or uprighted the overturned bucket. It would have taken ninety seconds to move the crap out of the shot but then again maybe they were going for the “strewn” look. The other nice touches are the coats thrown on the couch (10 second fix) and the paint bucket used as a trash can in the kitchen, crap on top of the fridge and that ever so convenient home office placement next to the dishwasher, “honey stop the car.”

http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=676738

Hahaha! Fun topic.

Ok, here I have one to share too. Check out the backyard photo for this one.

http://www.ziprealty.com/buy_a_home/logged_in/search/home_detail.jsp?listing_num=076056298&page=2&property_type=SFR&mls=mls_sandiego&cKey=fxk46g44&source=SANDICOR

4755 BOXWOOD DR, SD – Clairemont Mesa, CA 92117

Ok, don’t laugh at me now, but I actually look at run down places like this and I see Nirvana. Yeah, true. Even though it looks terrible now, I can visualize a nice putting green over here, and a japanese fish pond there, or a garden and a kids play house back there.

I would get a large ugly place for cheap and turn in to my own haven.

Here’s a twist, show the owners kids in the pictures. I can understand why they wanted to show the kid hopping on the trampoline because it distracts the viewer from the fact that the screen is only leaning against the sliding door. But the livingroom picture, what is the point of that? Another little tip is if you are not going to put away the vaccuum for the pictures, at least coil up the cord. The listing agent is in the 619 area code and the property is 951, two area codes away, so the homeowner probably took the pictures and e-mailed them to their relative who is a realtor, one can only hope.

http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=591295

Sorry to hog the board but I’ve got it, this may be the winner. 10 pictures of this 3 br 2.5 baths and I can absolutely guarantee that is has 2.5 baths, how can I know that? Because three of the pictures are of the toilets themselves, one is a nice lid up open bowl shot (nothing sells a house like a clean bowl). One has the lid down but that is probably a good thing based on the plunger next to it. No worries here about too many pictures of the bedrooms or living rooms because there are none, just three toilet shots, a washer and dryer pic, bathroom sink, kitchen (sink visible), two exterior and one is obstructed but the odds are there was a toilet or sink in it. This realtor probably used to be a plumber based on their love of sinks and toilets. I am going to e-mail the realtor and ask if the extra roll of t.p. on top of the toilet tank is included.

http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=819615