THE WORST MLS  Photo, from the O.M.G.Files of Robert Butler - Aspect Inspection

Here it is. The worst photo I've ever seen on an MLS listing (and the only one).

I've never seen another one taken at night! This was late December a year or two ago. This may have been late afternoon, but  the street lights are on, and it's got to be the saddest home presentation I've ever seen.

I copied this image directly from the MLS page so I could enlarge it and examine details. I was scheduled to inspect it in 72 hours. It had been a quadruplex renovated into a triplex. 

This is a drive by shooting! The bright spot above the stop sign is not a street light. It's the flash reflection off the car window when the agent took the photo with his cell phone. He didn't even roll down the window to take the picture!

I thought this one is going to be interesting and it was. There were so many issues in this property that this sad photo is actually representational. My client however was looking for a project. I had to impress upon him how big a project it was/is. He was undeterred. He got his project and then some.

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11 Comments on OMG FILE: Saturday Feb 5, 2011 Worst MLS Photo

FEB
05
2011
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Hi Robert, this definately goes into the worst MLS photos hall of fame. 
12:10pm • #1
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Hi Tricia, amen to that, and thanks for commenting. Keep an eye out for more OMG files, I've got lots of material.
12:50pm • #2

Hi Robert, maybe it is time for the home owner to look for a new agent?  Thanks for posting.
8:01pm • #3
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Hi Dale,

The home owner was an adult immigrant. The agent was his nephew, a newly minted Real Estate agent, very young.

The buyer bought the property. He was looking for a fixer upper and expected to put his own labour and skills into renovating the property and converting it into condos.

To give him a better picture of how much work it would require I asked him how long he expected to take. He told me. I said that wasn't unreasonable but what if you had setbacks or parts were more than you expect or even if materials cost mounted over the time frame?

I said to him (and his wife) "If it took from 2 to 3 times longer to finish, than you now expect, would you still take it on?" He said yes with no hesitation. He said he had construction experience and had lots of friends in different trades he could get assistance from.

That agent was lucky. He didn't have to sell that house. That buyer would have bought just the shell.
8:35pm • #4
FEB
09
2011
204,385 Points 2 Featured Posts

What a crappy way to represent the property.  Hope he gets better at his new chosen profession.  Perhaps you should invite im to Active Rain so he can learn from all the agents participating here!
7:28am • #5
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Thats a good idea Erby, thanks, i'll be sure to do that for him. If he does not take advantage ,well at least hell have been made aware of it, and may return later.
10:28am • #6
JUN
02
2011
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That is a pretty bad photo... Here is one of an bedroom found on the mls... I don't know what these agents were thinking when they posted these pic to showcase their listings... But I do know it makes for a good blog....

Bad MLS photo
11:05pm • #7
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It was cold outside! Why would you want to roll down the window!
11:22pm • #8
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Stephanie, I have seen worse rooms, a lot worse, but no one photographed them.

Tim, seriously? The road's slushy, that means it's not cold, only around 20 degrees F.  
11:32pm • #9
JUN
03
2011
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Pretty bad photo.  I used to be the MLS photographer in our area.  We had very strict instructions on how, when, where to take photos.  
12:30pm • #10
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Susan, hi. There were good reasons for those strict instructions.
3:35pm • #11


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Usually I'm presenting an aspect of home maintenance, value improvement or 'how too' instructions to feature best practice ways to do things around building and property issues. Some times it's building tech history or how thing came to be as they are, the back story on terms, expressions and phrases. I keep track of the strange, the unique, the special and interesting things I get to see, including the dangers. These are filed as OMGs. OMGs always have photos, so I share the file with you from time to time. The rest come out of thin air. More than once I start writing a comment on someone else's blog and end up inking a whole new blog. Am I inspired or am I ranting? You can decide.


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