Oh Craigslist, You Amuse Me So!

[rebelcowboysnb]

Not funny but more of a rant...

If you are selling something online, especially if it is expensive, take good pictures of it from angles that matter....



This is a dealer trying to sell something you would be buying to live in at least part time an he posts one picture of the outside.

Yep the outside of my next vacation home is all that matters, I dont care if it has a bed or a bathroom as long as I like how the outside looks you can have my money...

Quote: Hello and thanks for looking! This little fifth wheel will be half-ton friendly and comes with a weeks worth of paid camping in our campground. Call or text me seven days a week for more info or to let me know you are coming to the dealership to check it out! Have a great day,

This guy makes sure you know what it looks like from all sides but also does not seem to care that you might want to know what the inside of a home would look like..

Quote:

121,958 miles. Like new tires. Local trade in. Call or email if interested. Thank you.

Same issue but he shows off his truck too..

Quote:

5th WHEEL CAMPER FOR SALE OR TRADE


Then there is this...

Quote:

Very good condition, replaced water heater recently, some upgrades
Need to sell
8000 obo
With pictures like that you must not really "need to sell" it... Or maybe you need to sell it an buy a digital camera that takes pictures bigger than 100 pixels. I can make out that it has walls an that might be a table....

 

[tridentk9]

There's a web site or facebook page about the awful photos realtors use. It's funny, some of them are absolutely horrid.

Edited to add web site http://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/

 

[MeepBeep]

There's a web site or facebook page about the awful photos realtors use. It's funny, some of them are absolutely horrid.

The photos the realtor used for the ad on the farm we are currently renting, were about 15 years old, they were taken when the investment company first purchased the property! Not a big deal personally but it was funny to see the obvious changes and wear and tear...

 

[tridentk9]

The photos the realtor used for the ad on the farm we are currently renting, were about 15 years old, they were taken when the investment company first purchased the property!  Not a big deal personally but it was funny to see the obvious changes and wear and tear...

Y2K attacking their computer in reverse? Instead of deleting everything before 2000 it deletes everything after.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

There's a web site or facebook page about the awful photos realtors use. It's funny, some of them are absolutely horrid.

Edited to add web site http://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/

Those are bad but at least most show the house...

 

[cassie]

When I was looking on the internet a few years ago for property to buy, there were two real estate ads that really stuck in my mind. You know what a double wide mobile home is. This was a double HIGH mobile home. That's right. Two single wides, one stacked right on top of the other. I never did figure out the logic behind that one. It was a ten acre parcel in Arkansas so space wasn't an issue. The other was a piece of property of several acres. The listing mentioned a house, barn, corrals, and some large ponds. The only picture was of two good old boys standing by the pond each holding an enormous fish they apparently caught from that pond. No picture at all of the house, barn, corrals, or anything else. I guess that was the most important feature. My significant other wanted to buy that place sight unseen. The fish were enough for him.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

 

[MeepBeep]

That's right. Two single wides, one stacked right on top of the other. I never did figure out the logic behind that one. It was a ten acre parcel in Arkansas so space wasn't an issue.

Now I don't want to come across as being stereotypical or stereotyping, but I have a relative that lives in very rural Arkansas and there are plenty of 'Hillbilly' sights and architecture to be seen in and around his property, including his property... It's not uncommon to see two or three (totally different) trailers nailed/bolted together or parked next to each other with weathered sheets of plywood nailed up to connecting them, in fact I hear from my relative this is what most 'newlyweds' in the area do to consolidate assets when they marry, the wife brings her trailer with her as an addition to his trailer... I have also seen trailers balanced on top of 4 telephone poles, 10 feet in the air so they had a makeshift garage underneath... In some rural areas people can be quite creative with what they have...

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Now I don't want to come across as being stereotypical or stereotyping, but I have a relative that lives in very rural Arkansas and there are plenty of 'Hillbilly' sights and architecture to be seen in and around his property, including his property... It's not uncommon to see two or three (totally different) trailers nailed/bolted together or parked next to each other with weathered sheets of plywood nailed up to connecting them, in fact I hear from my relative this is what most 'newlyweds' in the area do to consolidate assets when they marry, the wife brings her trailer with her as an addition to his trailer... I have also seen trailers balanced on top of 4 telephone poles, 10 feet in the air so they had a makeshift garage underneath... In some rural areas people can be quite creative with what they have...

When dad remarried in the early 90s he was living in a small single wide by our store with my brother an sister. His new wife had 3 kids so he needed more room. He pulled a second single wide in 10 feet in front of the first one an built a hallway connection them. The space between them which was split by the hallway was then covered to make 2 storage building type rooms that we parked lawn mowers an ATVs in.. Odd house but for what he had in it it was huge..

I can make the stereotype even worse....

The woman he married was his brothers ex. The youngest 2 of her 3 kids are his brothers. Dads brother had went to prison an dad stepped up an looked in on his kids for him.. Dad hit it off with their mom an poof, I have 2 new step sisters an a new step brother... Two of which are already my cousins...

 

[The Yakima Kid]

When dad remarried in the early 90s he was living in a small single wide by our store with my brother an sister. His new wife had 3 kids so he needed more room. He pulled a second single wide in 10 feet in front of the first one an built a hallway connection them. The space between them which was split by the hallway was then covered to make 2 storage building type rooms that we parked lawn mowers an ATVs in.. Odd house but for what he had in it it was huge..

I can make the stereotype even worse....

The woman he married was his brothers ex. The youngest 2 of her 3 kids are his brothers. Dads brother had went to prison an dad stepped up an looked in on his kids for him.. Dad hit it off with their mom an poof, I have 2 new step sisters an a new step brother... Two of which are already my cousins...

Well, in New England, California, Colorado and a few southern states you can actually marry your first cousins. My father's family came from a small area around Bethune, CO that was known as "The Settlement" where a group of Germans from Russia who came from the Bessarabian village of Brienne established a colony. They are very inbred - I can remember visiting as a young woman and hearing a young man discussing how he had married his high school sweetheart after all. It seems he had decided to attend the community college over in Stratton to try and find a spouse he wasn't closely related to, and when he came home with the girl he met there, his mother pointed out how they were all related. She was more closely related than his high school sweetheart, so he decided to go ahead and marry his high school sweetheart.

Nothing like visiting and finding that everyone in town is related by blood or marriage or both. My mother was seen as very exotic and "foreign" due to her having Mayflower/Jamestown/Hueguenot refugee/American Revolutionary soldiers/Colonial American ancestry..