£1.25m and didn’t move the clothes horse

[Lolliepoppie]

Probably some of the most unflattering estate agent photos I’ve ever seen…no show pineapple here!
For £1.25m, why oh why didn’t they move the clothes horse and coats?

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122567066#/?channel=RES_BUY

Ah, but there is a pineapple.... top of the stairs photo!

@Intrigueddotcom - it's not how I approach my job but definitely how the estate agent's photographer did. Unfortunately I doubt it's much different with other estate agents.

This .

Do er uppers attract more interest.
Very sought after by developers and private buyers.

I'm so glad that at least one person agrees with me 🤣🤣

They could have also angled the photo of the bedroom so the security locks on the patio door weren't the focus of the picture.

That place looks like it has a lot of potential, if it was less cluttered and some of the dark wood toned down, but I think I'd be lying in bed watching that door expecting the mad axe murderer to come crashing through

Oh good.

Glad someone's death and subsequent property sale has tickled you. I'm sure the relatives must be doubled over with the hilarity of it all.

Quite obviously she's being facetious. Note the winky face.

This is a massive stretch. Owners are responsible for taking photos, they photographer should be trying to show the property in the best light.

That should say owners aren’t* responsible, it’s the job of the EA.

It looks like an old people's home.

I don’t think anyone would disagree with you that doer uppers attract good interest, but I think it’s a huge stretch to say that owners deliberately make their homes look worse by leaving laundry airers lying around just to get more interest!

Heres a house that I’m talking about falls in the mid category - a beautiful home but needs a lick of paint, it isn’t a proper doer-upper but nor is it a show home. I think this type of house will be really popular because buyers can easily move in to it exactly as is but then clearly see how they’d put their own stamp on it without needing to do loads of work.

www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61366498?utm_source=v1:5bWFDybfWx7C7AGpeagt7mP3PgcqjuqJ&utm_medium=api

www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61366498?utm_source=v1:5bWFDybfWx7C7AGpeagt7mP3PgcqjuqJ&utm_medium=api

link again as that one’s gone funny

I think that one is actually really nice @ShirleyPhallus

Our photographer moved a few things around (like taking shampoo out of the shower etc.) when he took pics of our place. Not sure why these estate agents didn't do a bit of rearranging.

Oh that's lovely!
You're right - you'd want to make it your own.

What a weird ugly thread, very much in the spirit of Mean Girls.

@carefullycourageous

Calm down

it's not nasty to say the bloody photographer for the agency that will get a good sum of money could have moved a bloody airer before taking photographs.

Cannot believe that some are commenting on vile decor etc. WTF is wrong with people?

I think the house is lovely. I dont quite understand why pp think its an old persons home? I see toys, I see home working. The bathstool could be from a parent who died, sure, but not in this house, many people store unused wheelchairs etc bc they don't know what to do with them afterwards (sometimes years).

The estate agent is letting them down. The "study" should have been photographed from a different corner so the cables were less visible (like the bathroom is). That takes seconds. Removal of clothes airer takes seconds. Opening curtains takes seconds. Moving coats takes seconds. That's four rooms that would look better within seconds. That is one lazyarsed photographer.

It’s not the job of an estate agent to tidy and present a house.
if there was no kitchen or conservatory picture I’m sure people would moan too.

I don't know why the photographer couldn't have moved the airer.

It's not a bad house externally, but it looks like it needs a lot of work updating internally.

@ShirleyPhallus That house is lovely, not a doer-upper at all. There's only thing I'd change is the yellow/orange walls in some rooms and the curtains if they were left, and that's only because they're not to my taste. I suppose the bathrooms are a little dated, but perfectly fine and I love the kitchen. I'd move in tomorrow!

I prefer the house in Shirley's link.

The garden is nice.
The airer could have been moved.
It's a bit dated, but it does have potential.
I couldn't afford it!

It's obviously an elderly person's home @Pixiedust1234 - everything about the way it's decorated tells you that. Toys on floor look like dog toys (and there's a dog bed in the study), toys on beds are there as decoration - my MIL and her SILs all did/do this.

As I said earlier, anyone who's had to live and WFH in an elderly parent's house while clearing it, or has visited someone doing this, will recognise the way the house looks. It's what my mum's house looked like, and my aunt's house, and my PIL's house.

I never used to notice the way probate or care home sales looked before my mum died, but I find them incredibly poignant now. One day, if people on this thread are lucky enough to get old and own a house, strangers will be sneering at their hideous, old-fashioned taste, too.