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"View from fat area" - MLS Blubber 'n' Blunders

By
Real Estate Agent with Sotheby's International Realty BRE # 01362887

The gaffes and laughs were all over the MLS and the real estate ads this week, friends. Do you recognize your listing remarks in any of these? If so, I’ll promise not to rat you out if you send me lots of money…or martinis…

MLS MONKEYSHINES

“View from fat area” (The only view from my fat area is my shoes.)

“Thought after area” (After-thought agent.)

“Wiggle room here” (Sign on the door at Strippers 'R' Us.)

“May ham bank approval” (If you are referring to B of A, mayhem is an understatement.)

Catting Around

“Fresh cat of paint” (What’s the cat’s name – Dunn Edwards?)

“Persians in lvg room already bought” (I'll tell you what they've already bought – most of Los Angeles!)

“You’ll enjoy coattails on the veranda” (That depends on what he’s wearing underneath the coat.)

“Dog hose matches architecture” (According to fashion experts, Lassie’s hose should match her ensemble.)

“New draims” (Old draim bramage.)

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

“Hole in flor not fixx” (Let me guess – you’re Flor, the hole is in your cerebrum, and you need a fix…)

“Big state sale” (Wassup - are the Bushes trying to unload Texas?)

“Choose your own fissures” (Said the doctor to the intern while waving a cauterizing instrument over his patient’s hairy bum.)

“Ligation has been resolved” (You untied your tubes?)

In the Dog House

“Go to my log for details” (How much detail can there be in four inches?)

That’s it for this week, folks. Remember: Spell Well and Sell!

For more real estate humor, please visit Gwen at www.sherlockofhomes.blogspot.com/ or Agent Genius. For all your real estate needs, please go to www.LAhomesite.com.

Comments (24)

Steven Cook
No Longer Processing Mortgages. - Tacoma, WA

Gwen -- thanks for the chuckles again this week.  In re: your comment #4 -- "You clean up very nicely."  Of course, it is a good thing the So Cal geologists didn't get in on the fissure comment, or they would have had to choose from: Black Point (Mono Lake), Santa Cruz Mountains, The Fissures on Profile Cliff in Yosemite, etc.  And don't even let the dentists get started.

May 18, 2012 05:39 AM
Juli Vosmik
Dominion Fine Properties - Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale/Cave Creek, AZ real estate 480-710-0739

OMG - Gwen, these are some of the best so far.  Thanks for another Friday laugh!!!

May 18, 2012 06:03 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA

Steven, perhaps I should have named the "patient" San Andreas!

May 18, 2012 06:10 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA

Nice to hear from you, Juli!

May 18, 2012 06:10 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Didn't you just do one of these?  Ha!  I bet you could do one every day!

To test that hole in the floor, did she recommend high heels? 

I bet you have more fissures to choose from out there than we have here in Virginia...

May 18, 2012 10:10 AM
Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV
Cornerstone Business Group Inc - Winchester, VA
Your Neighborhood Real Estate Sales Pro

I was hoping that big state sale was NJ.  We've been trying to unload that piece of property for years.  No offense NJ agents.  8-)

May 18, 2012 12:54 PM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA

Jay, most of the fissures I see here in L.A. are the scars from facelifts!

May 18, 2012 01:00 PM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA

Mike, it was nice knowing you. I just ordered a funeral arrangement for you.

May 18, 2012 01:01 PM
Dick & Sandy Beals
Wilmington Real Estate 4U Wilmington, NC - Wilmington, NC

Hi Gwen,

Another great Friday laugh...have a great weekend! 

Dick Beals

May 18, 2012 01:15 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Honestly, I don't know where you find them, Gwen.  But keep them coming.

May 18, 2012 03:52 PM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi Gwen.  Thanks for the funnies.  Spell check is a lost function for these people.

May 18, 2012 08:49 PM
Ronald Curtis
Sapphire Associates - West Palm Beach, FL
Negotiating the best price and terms for my Buyers

Hello Gwen......

You had better stay out of the dog house, with all the hidden dangers lurking there.

Best wishes,

RJ

May 19, 2012 12:06 AM
Lisa Von Domek
Lisa Von Domek Team - Dallas, TX
....Experience Isn't Expensive.... It's Priceless!

Hello Gwen,

Thank you for another laugh riot...but the photo, it takes the cake (or maybe shows what eating too much cake will do!)

May 20, 2012 06:23 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA
You, too, Dick - and thanks for the link you sent me last week!
May 20, 2012 08:55 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Jane, I know it would not come as a surprise to you if I told you some of these also come from the LA Sunday Times!
May 20, 2012 08:56 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Conrad, these people need to be "curb checked" as much as they need spellcheck!
May 20, 2012 08:57 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA
RJ, I live in LA remember? My house it is about as big as a doghouse!
May 20, 2012 09:00 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Lisa, that's my prom photo :-)
May 20, 2012 09:00 AM
Broker Patty Da Silva Da Silva
Green Realty Properties® - 954-667-7253 - Cooper City, FL
Top Listing Broker

Gwen,

I take offense with using cat as paint

:/

May 20, 2012 10:26 AM
Gwen Banta
Sotheby's International Realty - Los Angeles, CA

But, Patty, it comes complete with a tail for a paint brush. Marketing campaign: "For walls that have nine lives."

May 20, 2012 10:43 AM