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Anyone else see this sometimes? We were looking for a house with at least a quarter acre so I could garden, chickens, etc. One house had over a half acre. The garden looked pretty in the pictures...a bench, a trampoline and so on. More like a park. I worried it was "too pretty" and I would have to rip a lot up.
The description talked about sipping cool lemonades and listening to birds in your tranquil garden in a quiet neighborhood. Sounds great, right?
We get there and look outside....and couldn't figure out how they even got those pictures. Most of it was a slope if I remember. A rusty building thing. A small area with the bench. Just nothing really useful and nowhere near what the description said. It was also located on a busy street.
Agent said it was priced about 100K above what it should be, and even then kinda a stretch. We still laugh and shake our head at that one.
Fortunately we are closing soon on a lovely house with .32 acres.
Photos showed beautiful log home with wrap around porch , description "5 acres quiet picturesque country setting". We go to look, and right along the driveway to the home is a stinky pig farm with lot filled with big stinky hogs, and they sure weren't quiet. Why would realtor even think anyone will be buying this place unless they want to raise hogs.
My favorite was a listing that said "Water view." The water view was of an above ground pool! (Well, I guess it could have been worse -- it could have been one of those blow-up cheap kiddie things!)
P.S. You would think that the real estate agents would complain just as much about misleading ads! I mean, it not wasting only the potential buyers' time, but that of the agents, also.
How about when you see a house listed as a 3 bath on certain websites, until you click on the description (or worse, actually tour the house) and find out it's really just a 2-1/2 bath. It was bad enough when a 3/4 bath became a "full bath" for marketing purposes simply because it was a room where you could take a shower; where was the tub that truly qualified it as a "full" bath? But in what sane reality did half a bath--a toilet and sink--qualify as a full bath, someplace you could, you know, bathe or shower?
But the 4 lanes of IH10 are back there along with 24/7 interstate commerce moving in the big rigs. It is completely true that this home will never have a house built behind it.
But the 4 lanes of IH10 are back there along with 24/7 interstate commerce moving in the big rigs. It is completely true that this home will never have a house built behind it.
We get there and look outside....and couldn't figure out how they even got those pictures. Most of it was a slope if I remember. A rusty building thing. A small area with the bench. Just nothing really useful and nowhere near what the description said. It was also located on a busy street.
You could have saved yourself the trip if you looked it up on bing maps, or google maps, or street view, before getting so involved. Only takes 1 second to look it up. Only blame yourself for not researching it first.
I hated those fish eye stretch photos. I could immediately tell they were trying to make small rooms look big. Funny thing is that is how my current house was listed and i bought it anyways.
This is where the Redfin agent insights can be really useful - they often point out some of the 'features' the listing agent forgot to mention, like incessant buzzing from high tension power lines in backyard.....
You could have saved yourself the trip if you looked it up on bing maps, or google maps, or street view, before getting so involved. Only takes 1 second to look it up. Only blame yourself for not researching it first.
I hope you realize that google maps/ bing maps and such are sometimes a few years old depending on where you live. They do show the location of the home in relation to busy roads and such, but they don't show any improvements to the property due to how old the picture is.
If I looked at my home on google maps right now, it would show a hideous screened in porch but there isn't one on my house anymore.
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