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The one that annoys me is "Mrs. Clean lives here".
Translation=This tiny, outdated shotgun shack is falling apart, but the owners have used a broom occasionally. Unfortunately, we can't think of anything else positive to say about this dump.
LOL! This phrase was used in my brother's listing. And his wife really is Mrs. Clean. House sold in a week in a poor market area.
i hate the phrase "minutes from X". Im from houston and you are not minutes from anything but traffic. the place i live at now they still advertise "minutes from downtown" yea at what 2am?
"Convenient to transportation" means either that (a) you can hear freeway traffic from the living room window; or (b) four bus lines stop right in front of the house.
I don't expect Realtors to be copywriters and I find it inevitable that they'd exaggerate or embellish. What really turns me off is misspellings, not merely typos, but really wrong spellings. What kind of professional doesn't have a spell-checker on their computer? They can't take two seconds to look up a word if they don't know how to spell it?
Two absurd misspellings I've seen multiple times are "foe" for "faux" and "rot" for "wrought." If a porch has rot iron details it probably means it's really old, not attractive. I also get annoyed when a Realtor names the style of a house and gets it wrong. Terms like "Dutch colonial" and "Cape Cod" have very distinctive meanings. How could a person in the business of selling houses fail to educated themselves at least to the most common types? As lockdev pointed out, every ranch house is not "mid-century modern." To me, that amounts to misrepresentation.
I have one funny story about a house description. My brother brought my attention to an ad that had the line, "Walk to Costco!!" He frowned and said, "If you bought even a couple of things, how could you walk back?"
What really turns me off is misspellings, not merely typos, but really wrong spellings. What kind of professional doesn't have a spell-checker on their computer? They can't take two seconds to look up a word if they don't know how to spell it?
Two absurd misspellings I've seen multiple times are "foe" for "faux" and "rot" for "wrought." If a porch has rot iron details it probably means it's really old, not attractive.
A certain percentage of people selling real estate are hacks and have no insight into the field.
An asking price that is not a prime number immediately eliminates that property from consideration.
For instance: $199,999 we will look at the property. $199,900? NOPE!
i hate the phrase "minutes from X". Im from houston and you are not minutes from anything but traffic. the place i live at now they still advertise "minutes from downtown" yea at what 2am?
The question is.....how many minutes? Maybe like 90 on a good day.
I'm a visually oriented kind of guy, so I mostly look at the pictures. But there are a few words that will turn me off to a listing. I'm weird, though, because most people probably look at these words favorably: "Completely renovated/updated/remodeled."
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