STUNNING - BREATHTAKING - SHOCK & AWE! Really? Are you Serious? C'mon?

Linda #6, that's because the water view is only available from the highest point of the roof WHEN all the leaves have fallen off the trees.

Mike #8, We just made an offer on the Pet Home!  (Didn't work out though!)

Inna, We saw that toilet too!  Luckily it wasn't in our listing!

Greg, what was the phrase from yesterday? "Great work.  Outstanding post, but let me tell you about the write up we saw today!!!"

Ya gotta admit....we do need adjectives.   We write descriptions of properties over, and over, and over.  We sound like broken records.   So we gotta try to make it sound intriguing to ourselves!   That's why2a 1,500 sq ft house can "feel" spacious.   Some property descriptions are just boring, blah, blah, blah.....   And at the end of a long hard day (while writing a description on a new listing)....don't ya just wanna say the truth about the ugly powder pink bathroom??   Thanks for the giggle on this post :)

Nino, I must admit that you think a lot like I do.  You just write those thoughts funnier and better than I can!

Now Greg,

You mean to tell me that you haven't used the word Stunning in any of your listings??  It is up to us as Realtors to do the very best for our clients.  That is to get the buyers attention and to get them to come see the house.  I will admit I try not to over do it.  As a former chef/owner of my own restaurants though it comes from past experience to try to describe things by using as many adjectives as possible.  Now for instance a bathroom has to be something to be Stunning.

Great points. How many go to a previous listing and just spruce it up a bit. My current listing has this. It is dated, with a view (of a busy street) etc... how could I enhance this? NOT... Tell it like it is.

But you are so right, out in in Cal. the higher end are "stunning, dazzling, jaw dropping, welcome home properties."

Thanks for the laugh.

Hi Greg... you have just given me a wonderful idea for my office meetings.  I am going to give an over-used MLS descriptor each week in an attempt to drive awareness of them so they can be avoided.  Thanks!

Me, too, ROTFLMAO.  I hate "unbelievable", "amazing", etc.   Just shut up and give us the best there is in the house, and we'll figure the rest out.

Shocking,

I inspected a house that stank so bad the buyers agent couldn't stay inside it.

When the buyer decided not to purchase this home, The agent called and yelled at me.

That was jaw dropping.

I saw a home that had settled on one corner by 7 inches. Seriously you could stand in the living room and put your hand through a crack to the outside.

The listing agent wrote "Creative Views" on the listing. WOW

Seriously can you move to Vegas and start selling?  I couldn't even imagine the chuckle that would happen when I came across your listings in the MLS!

I guess we tend to go a little over the line when trying to impress people with our listings.  But, wouldn't the truth sound so bland?  I mean, who would buy a home advertised as, "a crappy little duplex in the hood that once had dog turds all over the floor?"  A "quaint fixer upper with a lot of potential for an investor" sounds a LOT better!

This was a breathtaking post!  Love the awesome mention of granite counters!

Are you looking for some Keebler Elves in your tree? Marketing... it can be a funny thing. It got you to check it out though, so it must be working.

Two words about your post, Greg:

STUN ING!!!

Cheers,

Robin

You are right as usual, no one ever bought a home because of the stunning anything!  It's the emotion that sold it!

Once again, Greg, you are hilarious.  I'm sure you don't sit down at your computer and say, "What shall I make horrible fun of today, get the doers all riled up about it...??"  Do you?  Because honestly, sometimes your posts make me think just that.  That you are thinking of the last thing someone did that aggravated you to no end so now you're going to write about it.  You have your own "Just Say No" campaign!  Today, we're saying "NO!" to overusing descriptive words.  Works for me!

~Emcee

We have elves in our oak trees, but I'm the only one that sees them...funny that!

I just want you to know Greg that I have to read your posts out loud to Jon (the hubby) and he laughs his ass off!  i have had a REALLY SHITTY day and I just the read the first page of your blog and I am either in tears laughing or pumping my fists in the air saying "hell yeah!"  THANKS!