this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally a home the younger generations can afford.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno, that's a huge plot of land it's sitting on. That's easily a $350k fixer upper project home! It's got personality! No noisy neighbors!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Can’t beat those mountain views!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is from breaking bad, right ?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I though the same thing!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reminds me of that house from "The Book of Eli" with an old couple inside and a bunch of graves out back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It comes with a trap door for your guests to enjoy on their way in!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] instamat 2 points 1 year ago

Book of Eli could have been a Fallout movie

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hey, you can't just barge in on Tio Salamanca! Ding, Ding, Ding

[–] Braysl 9 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of Salad Fingers. Or Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Middle of nowhere? No neighbors? Sign me up. Though if probably just tear the house down

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

There’s a huge number of these kinds of homes in the southwest. They’re pretty inexpensive and they usually sit on the market for months. They’re in no way investment properties - mine sold a decade later for what I paid for it after sitting on the market for a year.

You have to go into it with eyes open, though. If you’re lucky, you will have your own well on the property. If not, you’ll have a shared well or have to haul your own water. That changes the way you think about showers and laundry. You’re in the middle of nowhere, and your neighbors may range from the nice folks who live a mile over that way to the black helicopter conspiracy theorists. You’ll probably see them rarely but hear them doing target practice in their backyard. Wildlife will very much be a thing. Winters can be rough because if you get snowed in, you’re not going anywhere without owning a plow or snow vehicle. Summers are freaking hot. Water will increasingly be an issue. Internet will be unavailable unless you have a satellite service. You’re going to potentially have a problem with cell service, too.

Some of the problems can be solved by throwing money at it, others are just things you have to adapt to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are a fair number of these properties in California. $40k for a postage stamp lot with a tiny framed structure on it (maybe). Oh in the middle of the desert where the high is above 110 recently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is probably a stupid question but do they have running water? I assume they can use generators or solar if they’re not on the power grid, septic tank, satellite internet. But water seems tricky. And mail, but I guess you collect it from town. And how far is town? Surely an hours drive would be the limit of what’s reasonable?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I suspect you may be able to put in a well but I doubt they have city water.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I watched a home reno show on HGTV where one episode was kinda out in bumfuck California and they had a big tank for water and a truck would come and refill it routinely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Landers? Joshua Tree? Yucca? Or 29?

[–] ooklamok 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like stuff I've seen between Apple Valley and Barstow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You sure this isn't from the Oppenheimer movie?

[–] TIEPilot 4 points 1 year ago

Why does this house remind me of the finals scenes of "The Book of Eli"?

/ring my bell...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno, that looks kinda nice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plot Twist: It's the above ground part of a multistory underground home, made intentionally to look like there was absolutely nothing going on here.

[–] Gregorech 2 points 1 year ago

Do cars with government plates visit it at odd hours?

[–] Delphia 1 points 1 year ago

See, I hate camping, but I like getting away from town and riding dirtbikes and buggies and so on.

I could absolutely have a "Desert house"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can see Cousin Eddie's worm farm in the back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ok honestly though, the mountains view!

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