I like the ones where the realtor renovates the kitchen with Photoshop, or maybe paints an out-of-fashiion brick elevation with Photoshop. You know, so you can see the possibilities.

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I'm talking mostly about the pictures where they photoshop in material differences like flooring that isn't real, the ones with a pool in the back, things like that. I think there may have been one with a photoshopped new kitchen or bathroom a couple months ago. At some point it becomes something other than the actual house being sold.

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I didn't understand your original comment but I actually completely agree with this. I'm all for touching up colors and the like in photoshop, but once agents start adding, removing, or altering the existing furniture or structure, that goes to far IMO. And when it first started, you could 100% see what was real and what was altered. There are some now that are good enough where you can't.

Yea I've seen several where I had to click back through because something didn't add up only to realize that things weren't real. Thats very bad imo. If I was a buyer right now that would really turn me off and if it isnhard for me or yall to spot, assuming we are even slightly above average on intelligence, imagine how many people get duped.

I could tell when it first started because all of a sudden everyone's flat screen TV had the same picture of the beach with a couple of palm trees!

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Yea I've seen several where I had to click back through because something didn't add up only to realize that things weren't real. Thats very bad imo. If I was a buyer right now that would really turn me off and if it isnhard for me or yall to spot, assuming we are even slightly above average on intelligence, imagine how many people get duped.

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It's really sad when people are buying site unseen because of COVID or whatever. They are the ones truly duped (though they should have seen in person)

I think with HAR you can show "virtually staged" rooms but it has to be disclosed in the picture and you're supposed to show it both ways.

I don't look at the MLS near as much as I used to so not sure if that's being enforced.

As far as 'virtual pools" and the like, they're just trying to show people that thee is room for a pool. Whether not it's effective is a different argument, but I don't think many agents are trying to convince buyers that a home has a pool when it doesn't.

The Fife said:

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I'm talking mostly about the pictures where they photoshop in material differences like flooring that isn't real, the ones with a pool in the back, things like that. I think there may have been one with a photoshopped new kitchen or bathroom a couple months ago. At some point it becomes something other than the actual house being sold.

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I understand and agree completely. Just providing some input from the photographer's point of view. A lot of these things are widely known to be unethical, which makes the unprofessional folks easy to spot.

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Sea Speed said:

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Yea I've seen several where I had to click back through because something didn't add up only to realize that things weren't real. Thats very bad imo. If I was a buyer right now that would really turn me off and if it isnhard for me or yall to spot, assuming we are even slightly above average on intelligence, imagine how many people get duped.

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It's really sad when people are buying site unseen because of COVID or whatever. They are the ones truly duped (though they should have seen in person)

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This is an excellent point, and it was a problem even before covid. I used to shoot a lot of vacation homes on the coast, and one situation in particular stands out. A listing for one of the homes three or four streets off the beach (don't recall exact location but it definitely wasn't first row) showed a very closeup view of the water. Zoom lens from the third floor balcony shot right past two or three rows of lots. A couple purchased the home from somewhere up north (Michigan rings a bell), and they ended up suing the agent and the photographer once they saw the actual view.

Fast forward a few years, and a different agent hires me to shoot a third row property but later complains that none of the images featured the view of the water. One image did in fact show the actual view, just not the zoomed shot looking out from the entry that she now requested. I declined, cited the other case, and added that she was welcome to take that shot herself without any of my exif data attached. That was probably the 20th house I'd done for her, but I never got another call after that.

This is somewhat interesting...maybe. High dollar/fancy address...house needs some maintenance. And a room full of cinder blocks and what are those boxes stacked up in there? Pics 39 - 40.

https://www.har.com/homedetail/905-kirby-dr-houston-tx-77019/9276050

I see that, with the powered chair for the stairs, and just picture some elderly residents that have lived in the home a long time and are no longer able to continue living there. It always makes me sad for some reason.

I can't figure out the cinder blocks or boxes - it a computer room now but not sure why they would keep all those old boxes. Almost seems as if the cinder blocks are part of the PC "desk", and the area of one high cinder blocks almost seem like maybe they had something on top of it - like an exercise bike? Complete guess.

I like the old school phone in one of the bathrooms.

Looks like they were labeled like framed photos. Cinder blocks is very odd though.

FDR
JFK
Proof of Creation (Edit...maybe "Pillars of Creation")
Library Requests (Library of Congress???)
Lethal Liquids??? (hard to make out though)

Interestingly, the current owner has only owned it for 20 years. I expected much, much longer.

Yea I didn't see those boxes labeled. The first photo with fewer boxes didn't have nearly as weird labels from what I could read.

I know that location. The road noise must be near unbearable. And NO back yard.

The plastic on top of the table cloth reminds me of my mom.

I don't know jack about Houston…but $1.2mm for a smallish house that needs gutting (if not a tear down) on a small lot?

That house may be outdated and would definitely benefit from a remodel. There's no way it "needs gutting".

That area is a prime location and only minutes from downtown. The house is, unfortunately, on an extremely busy street.

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This is somewhat interesting...maybe. High dollar/fancy address...house needs some maintenance. And a room full of cinder blocks and what are those boxes stacked up in there? Pics 39 - 40.

https://www.har.com/homedetail/905-kirby-dr-houston-tx-77019/9276050

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The things in boxes are "collectible" plates. Regular plates but with a Norman Rockwell picture or whatever. They were marketed towards old people in the '80s and my grandpa bought a ton of them.

He'd be over 110 now so I doubt the seller is his age. Maybe they were inherited, or maybe old people are still into them. Who knows.

It's not a bad price at all for the location.

Yea I dont think I'd be able to comfortably live in thst house. My wife is going to love It though.

That one is a no for me. It's had an unfortunate remodel sometime... all the oak looks kind of '80s to me. It's two different styles fighting against each other and definitely needs some work bringing the interior finishes in line with the architecture.

Love that house - but yeah, not sure I'd actually want it though.

The Fife said:

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That one is a no for me. It's had an unfortunate remodel sometime... all the oak looks kind of '80s to me. It's two different styles fighting against each other and definitely needs some work bringing the interior finishes in line with the architecture.

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I had the exact same thought. The wood is just too much of a big no. The grain looks cheap and fake. And the parquet floors make it worse.

It is a gorgeous home on the exterior, and I do like the main living and sitting room area (minus the wood).

The upstairs addition looks too much like 1990s arts and crafts/craftsman style instead of MCM. Especially that stairwell in picture 27.

a lot of those houses on Tiel were done by Frank Lloyd Wright proteges.

The common theme of his homes (and those inspired by his designs) is that they are visually striking but not easy to live in.

I thought the same about the banister and rails on the staircase. That looked kind of like the Craftsman revival that went on around 2000.

The grain on that honey oak is exactly like the cabinets some friends of my parents had put in when they built their house in 1988. It's something I can't unsee. The parquet doesn't make a lot of sense either. It's like the 1st floor of Rudder Tower and I wouldn't be surprised if it was installed on top of terrazzo a long time ago.

The place will probably find a buyer but it'll take a big wallet to redo over 5,000 sq ft when the time comes.

We knew a family who bought a house near there, proceeded to put nearly seven figures into the remodel, then sell it for close to lot value a few years later. Tough

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I got curious to see what else was for sale in the area and ran across this mid-century modern beauty. I wouldn't want to live in it, but it's interesting.

https://www.har.com/s/3089371a0008

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Amazing!

Whoa…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-realtor-killed-in-murder-suicide-by-client-who-just-purchased-home-police-say.amp

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Baglione "said it didn't look the same as it did in the pictures," his neighbor told the newspaper. "He told his son he was unhappy and that he was going to talk to his agent about it."

Baglione had reportedly called his son to confess to the alleged murder.

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I can't believe there are no photos in the articles.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/74-Bolling-Rd-Portsmouth-VA-23701/75391651_zpid/

IMAGE OF HOUSE IN ARTICLE:



IN LISTING:

People are nuts. Dude buys a house for $160,000 and Zillow says it's worth $183,000, so naturally his reaction is to kill the realtor because it doesn't look like the pics? Oh and he brought the gun to the final walkthrough before even seeing the house? Seems to me like he planned to kill the kid all along.

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We knew a family who bought a house near there, proceeded to put nearly seven figures into the remodel, then sell it for close to lot value a few years later. Tough

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There's got to be more to this story than what your saying.

combat wombat said:

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I got curious to see what else was for sale in the area and ran across this mid-century modern beauty. I wouldn't want to live in it, but it's interesting.

https://www.har.com/s/3089371a0008

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This house just reminds me of a scary movie