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Hay, wear is that thing cauld spell check? Eye kneed too yews it.

spelling button Okay, I don't mean to be mean (I love homonyms!), but this listing agent could use some help. Spell checking the remarks on the MLS would be a good start.

Agent Remarks: From Main make turn on Maple to the end. who know quality will love it. Owners live here for 13 years and enjoy this home seet pleashure who know quality will love to have it this majestic home.

Remarks: Costum home on N. Central area, OWNER WILL FINANCE WITH 30 % DAWN exelent location is 4-2-2 the 4 BR is an office an is on first floor ideal, home for professionals who work from home, this home has open areas with magestic woof stairs, nice family room and big kitchen with 42" cabinets, biuld in oven, islan kitchen and granite counter tops,2 livings plus game room, 2 dining, 2 C. Garages + 8 parking spacies

Note: Street names changed to protect the guilty. The house has been listed with the same agent for 479 days. A couple of the other listings have been on the market even longer.

Here's another one:

ALL YOUR DREAME ARE REALITY ON THIS BEATIFUL HOME HAS 5 BR WITH MASTER DAWN 4 UP STEAIRS WITH ANOTHER BIG SIZE ROOM CAN BE ANOTHER MASTER WITH 4 WALKING CLOSETS OR MAKE A TEATER AND EACH BEDROOM HAS WALKING CLOSETS FIRE PLEASE, NICE ENTRY WITH CEALING TO SECOND FLOOR, FORMAL LIVING W/DINING CONVINATION GREAT KITCHEN WITH DISWASHER AND REAL WOOD KITCHEN GABINETS

Do the sellers know that their homes are being advertised on the MLS like this? Yeesh.

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Posted by Robin Rogers, CRS: fun and professional real estate agent and investment adviser on 11/09/2009 06:01 PM

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20 Comments on Hay, wear is that thing cauld spell check? Eye kneed too yews it.

NOV

im glad i dont right things about property, my spelling sucks and sometimes i am just too lazy to spell check.

Whopat opis thopis opaopbout? Thopis Crooazy. Love it Robin. I too have to just shake my head when I read some of MLS remarks. The sellers would not be happy - and I wonder why the broker doesn't do some training on these issues.

Hopope yopou hopave opa gopood nopight!

Me blameth it on me fingers that maketh me make typooooooooooooooooooooos.

Don't get me started. But then I am English and we wouldn't get into high school if we couldn't spell. Kids these days eh!

Howdy there Robin

I sure can't say a whole lot about missen up with spelling, seen that I have miss up at times myself on my blog posts. But I do make sure that I always use the spell checker, when writing my inspection reports.

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Robin, Looking through the MLS more often these days, I see this quite often. This post would be funny if it wasn't so true. Good news is, I'm learning to read that way :)

Robin, There are people who just do not possess the ability to spell correctly. Spellcheck is a perfect solution for them and they should use it!

Robin, That is just plain sad!! I have rather savvy seller's and they typically look their listing up. (although I always send it to them also) This seller will be in for the surprise of their life if they look this up.

Shoot I even usually spell check my comments. My spelling use to be good but too much Internet has made me lazy.

Funny/sad it may be, but also pretty annoying to those of us who try hard to get things right. Not that I'm obsessive about it or anything!

Robin

Thank God for spellcheck or I would be kicked off of Active Rain for sure! It does frustrate me when folks don't use it .

Too funny, Robin! Well, to me, but probably not to the seller.... LOL

Debi

Robin, I am sometimes shocked when I go back to read my own posts and see typos. On listings I always make sure there are no errors. Seeing the spelling errors, etc., in our MLS makes me cringe.

NOV

Robin

Perhaps when sellers are interviewing agents, they should have a spelling Bee!

Good idea, Ty! That would make for a more interactive listing presentation!

Robin, I keep a Dictionary on my computer table, because my spoken word is greater than my ability to spell !!!!

NOV

Sometime between us discussing this at Baja Betty's yesterday and now it struck me that the Sellers' command of the English language is probably equivalent to the agent's. Hay, eye'm trying two make sum thing good out ov this. LOL

Best wishes!

Robin! Oh my goodness. A dictionary is close by for me to use if I have a question and of course, we have spell check, but this is embarrassing...really!

NOV

Some people can't even spell dictionary!

NOV

And it never seems to fail that the non-spellers also have the lousiest listing pictures.

Hope you've recovered from San Diego.

NOV

I am laughing uncontrollably........Oh, let me spell check this.....LOL! Great Post

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