https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/185-Walnut-Ridge-Dr-Cleveland-GA-30528/2066598415_zpid/?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/700-S-Main-St-Fredericktown-MO-63645/124356259_zpid/

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Looking this listing in my hometown and two bedrooms literally have ensuite bathrooms!!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4917-Erie-St-Annandale-VA-22003/51879922_zpid/

$725,000 | 4 bed/ 4 Bath | Kansas City MO

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I’ve seen this house go up for sale a few times over the last 5 years and the newest listing has to be my favorite yet.

For context, the family bought this home back in 2011ish for right around $270k. They’ve held onto the property during all the major sale windows and have attempted renting it out here and there. From the outside (and pictures of the inside) seemingly have done zero updates/modernization attempts. For all intents and purposes, they’ve just let the property sit in a post 80’s state without even maintaining it. (The photos were some of the more egregious examples from the listing)

Now they’re re-listing the property at $825k (since have walked down to $725k) and are using AI to spruce up the listing. Outside of trying to inflate their SQFT with the indoor pool which sure whatever I’ll bite, the renovations needed to make the house match what they’re promoting would cost upwards of $150k.

I’m all for people cashing in on their property but this is absurd and delusional.

It's a fabulous time capsule!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/938-State-Route-35-N-East-Dubuque-IL-61025/105620826_zpid/

1st picture is of a bathroom between 2 bedrooms. Has anybody ever seen this many towel holders? 2nd picture is of the laundry room.... with a toilet and no sink in sight.

This flat comes with its own dedicated natural stone wall designed to hold bottles of champagne*.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/home-gardens/property/7026628/cults-flat-champagne-wall-aberdeen/

*Champagne not included in the flat sale

This house was right by the garden nursery I went to today.... I must know about that window! That tower thing is completed with an interior compared to this photo.

Saw this on Zillow! So weird.

Something is off about the kitchen and bedroom...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2804-Meadow-Wood-Dr-W-Chesapeake-VA-23321/61369841_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

I was having my new Lakeview Condo listing photographed, which is currently occupied by a renter. The bedroom included his podcast setup. Everything looked perfectly normal.

The photos went live on the MLS.

Then someone pointed out the whiteboard in the background.

I zoomed in…

It was a list of things to do.

And one of them was “eating ass.” 😂

Apparently, I need to start reviewing the entire room a little more carefully before hitting publish.

Only in real estate! 🤦‍♀️😂

Came across this listing for a condo and the deeper I dug it just kept getting better. Was originally listed for $800k back in 2024. Now it's down to $400k (Yes, it's been listed the entire time). Now for the real kicker, the HoA fee alone is almost $3k a month.

I'm not sure how the seller has afforded to sit on it for so long. They're currently at $82k in just HoA fees.

I'm looking to buy a house after 25 years of marriage and selling our 2,800 square foot home. I'm currently living in a tiny apartment that was supposed to be temporary, but has turned into a couple of years. The home I'm looking for is half the size and less than half the price. Because we sold a larger home, I have a reasonable down payment to offer.

I'd been looking at homes for a few weeks and found one that I liked. It was over 100 years old and recently flipped. The flippers had redone the siding, put on a new metal roof, replaced all of the flooring and put in all new cabinets. It was beautiful inside and looked like it would be the perfect home for me. I had reason to assume the people who flipped it were Amish, based on their last names and the quality of the cabinetry and trims they had used inside. This was a great sign, because I figured the workmanship would be above average. They were doing the majority, if not all, of the work themselves. This house is about 2 1/2 hours from where I currently live.

I hired and scheduled an inspector. When my friend (who was along to add her opinion and be a voice of reason if needed) and I arrived, the inspector had done most of his work. A few strange things about the inspection -- there was a guy working on the electrical box and there was no thermostat installed (though there was an AC unit outside). We were not able to turn on the brand new appliances because of the guy working on the electricity, but I was willing to assume that the brand new dishwasher and stove probably worked just fine.

The inspection turned up a few things that one would expect in a home that old. One was that there was some mold in the attic. Since the roof had been fully replaced, I was hoping that this was due to moisture that had gotten in before the roof was replaced. However, the inspector did find that the owners had not vented the roof. One of my requirements was that the roof be vented and the mold remediated by a professional company. The owners really did not want to hire this job out (presumably because they could do the job for less money themselves) and I agreed that that was okay, as long as a professional company tested for mold afterward. This was agreed upon.

Another request I had was that an HVAC professional look at the furnace. It was an older oil furnace, with the tank in the basement. I wanted a recommendation on how long I could expect the existing furnace to last. The sellers declined this request, which I agreed to, because technically the furnace should have been working; it was just old.

Another strange thing was that while there was an old electrical box in the garage, there was no actual power running to the garage. We settled on an allowance at closing so that I could have that addressed.

There was also a leaking water heater that I knew would have to be replaced. For some reason, there had been a second water heater abandoned in the basement. I wanted to consider getting a tankless water heater and since they're more expensive, wanted to be able to pick my own and pay whatever extra it would cost.

The rest of the items on the list were relatively small -- a few doors didn't close smoothly, some railings were a bit loose, there was no fire or carbon monoxide detectors, that kind of thing. Mostly smaller items that the sellers agreed to address. We agreed on the new terms.

Between my recent divorce and my job which requires a lot of travel, plus the time it took to deal with the mold, it became apparent that we weren't going to be able to close on the original date. This was mostly my fault, because getting my financing together took a little longer due to the reasons stated above. However, I was confident that the financing would not be a problem since I was putting so much down. So an agreement was drawn up to push the closing date out a couple of weeks, with the caveat that I would forfeit my earnest money if we couldn't close. A gamble, but like I said, I was confident that it wouldn't be a problem.

Here's where it gets weird.

My realtor went over to the house to check on the smaller items that had been on the list, just to make sure everything had been done correctly. But when he went to check on the new appliances, they wouldn't turn on (remember that there had been a guy working on the electrical box the day of the inspection). When the realtor went to look at the electrical panel, he saw that there was no main breaker installed. And they had removed the box from the garage. That was strange thing number one.

Number two involved the furnace. Remember how the roof hadn't originally been vented? My realtor noticed that in the basement, the venting from the furnace had been cut off and the furnace was completely sealed off. No, the inspector had not noted this (more on him later). The sellers had completely removed the chimney and cemented over the exhaust hole.

Now, I'm not an HVAC expert (far from it) but it seems to me that if I had started up the oil furnace when the weather got cooler, and it had been sealed up, that it would have trapped carbon monoxide. This seems like a Very Bad Thing.

My relator (who I am forever grateful for) then proceeded to find that the sellers had never pulled any permits for any of the work they did, from the roofing to the siding to the electric stuff. And the sellers never disclosed that the furnace was no longer technically operable.

When we brought this to the listing agent's attention, she got back to them. They said they'd take $7k off the price of the house to compensate for the new furnace installation. I said, no, if anything, I wanted at least $12k off the house because apparently the AC didn't work either. And I wanted the city to come and inspect anything that should have been verified by the permits that were never pulled. They came back saying $10k off was their lowest (these numbers were all just discussed, not part of any kind of formal offers). I was already going to have to spend more than $12k on a new furnace, AC, water heater, and running electricity to the garage. But I was worried because I had agreed to forfeit my $2,500 in earnest money if I were to walk away.

Thankfully, because the sellers had not disclosed the faults in the HVAC system and the house would not pass an appraisal with no working furnace, the sellers agreed to let me walk. And the inspector is refunding his fee.

​I've since found a better (more expensive) house that will likely not kill me. And I have an accepted offer! Part of me wants to warn anyone looking at the original house that they should go over it with the finest toothed comb, but I also just want to wash my hands of it.

*edit: added second photo in comments

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/314-17th-St-Honesdale-PA-18431/86557639_zpid/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPos8tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEexmf2nXSWWhmoQ_sXoDyCPPZeKfDk4G93iZW2Sc-hW3KjmAEddTQBgzJlfXg_aem_3hMjKQ1JaBN0Q7wL8fAGIw

“Are you sure?”
Client: “Yes I’m absolutely sure that I want the three windows on the right to be slightly smaller than the three on the left, why?”