the pics are awful

they'll do great anyway-the pic of the lake is the one who will bring all the buyers..))

(it's like the only bad place I dined in while in Paris was something ancient that was frequented by Voltaire..you left happy you haven't been poisoned or beaten by a waiter or something lol..but their business ran very smoothly. Voltaire's name was enough..))

Good way to market to bargain hunters.

Reminds me of a seller client I had that promised me she would clean up the home and then call me to take pics. She did call me and when I arrived, I found the home still completely looking like a pig's pen. I was so angry that I went ahead and took photos, even of the dirty bras and underwear strewn across her bedroom, and posted them on the MLS. I then sent her a link to the listing. She called within minutes complaining that the pics were terrible. She "cleaned" up a bit and I retook the pictures.

I also think some realtors post pics like that to let people know its a mess, if you can't see beyond that you won't like the house. I once bought a house like that, I was amazed after closing how clean it was, they really removed all the junk. I didn't expect that. It was a diamond in the rough, made a good amount of money looking past the mess.

I could tell by the outside that it was going to be a dump inside. Not taken care of

" I was so angry that I went ahead and took photos, even of the dirty
bras and underwear strewn across her bedroom, and posted them on the
MLS."

And this met your fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest of your CLIENT?

The good news about these pictures is you are prepared for it to smell bad when you open the door. Dirt is an opportunity. There is a lot of dirt in this listing. Give it six months, a few price drops and you have a potential flip.

I'm so used to looking at real estate photos that are almost too perfect that I was shocked to see this one. Some aren't great but this was disgusting. It looks like a squatter just moved out.

I've been to the linked site several times, and still think I've seen much, much worse photos in listings, and houses in person. How sad is that?

I'm more surprised by the price (465K?). I wonder what price a good looking house will cost in that area.

I would say at least $750K for a decent house on that lake - many over a million and some multi-million but it depends on the amount of shoreline, type of waterfront, elevation, etc.. This could be a tear down as the lot is probably worth the asking price.

Looks like an empty house with the usual crap that people leave behind.

You should see some of the appraisal pics I get when people are looking to refinance or add a 2nd, 3rd or 4th mortgage! The first thing I look at as a mortgagee's rep is "pride of ownership".

Yeah, at least these pictures were largely in focus and decently lit. :-o It's the RE agents taking blurry or blown-out non-flash pics with their 1.3 megapixel dumbphones who are doing their clients no favors. On the other hand, many of those properties are shorts or foreclosures and lots more neglect will happen to them to prolong the sale.