What's your real estate pet peeve?

[Anonymous]

Mine is houses that look nice from the front but developers were too cheap to make the back look good. I see this so much - a house with plenty of windows that presents 'well' from the front, but the developers were too cheap to make the back match, so the back is tiny windows and few of them, and no details.

[Anonymous]

Not sure if you count this as real estate it’s more mortgage. Charging people who don’t put 20% down PMI. It’s just an extra fee they charge and it’s not fair. If I can’t afford to save up 20% of a down payment gif have good enough credit to get a mortgage charging an extra fee is BS.

[Anonymous]

The fish eye photos, detail pictures of random flowers on a table, photos that don't go in a logical order to accompany the flow of the house, virtually staged furniture, altering the sky in photos to make it look like some other planet.

[Anonymous]

Dining room spelled as dinning. It’s the room for making steady low noise.

Lack of foyers.

Purple prose descriptions. Just be factual.

Extreme open concepts with no walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you count this as real estate it’s more mortgage. Charging people who don’t put 20% down PMI. It’s just an extra fee they charge and it’s not fair. If I can’t afford to save up 20% of a down payment gif have good enough credit to get a mortgage charging an extra fee is BS.

How about save 20% or rent? If you put very little money down, you have little incentive not to walk away if prices plunge 15%, which can happen. People seem to want a return to the mistakes of the 2008 bubble in the guise of “fairness”!

[Anonymous]

The neighborhood descriptions are my biggest pet peeve...descriptions like "desirable" and "highly coveted" and "sought after"...its often too generous of a description.

I also recently saw a neighborhood described as "bucolic" Someone clearly has been using their thesaurus!

[Anonymous]

Cheap renos and then trying to sell for over 100% more than what it was purchased for within last five years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fish eye photos, detail pictures of random flowers on a table, photos that don't go in a logical order to accompany the flow of the house, virtually staged furniture, altering the sky in photos to make it look like some other planet.

+1 I don't need a close up of your floral arrangement or other staging decor that doesn't even convey.

Any virtual staging or editing feels suspicious. What else are they photoshopping?

[Anonymous]

When the pictures online don't provide a flow.

For example, the sequencing of the pictures goes front door, basement, master bath, kitchen, foyer, etc.

It drives me crazy

[Anonymous]

When no floor plan is included in the listing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dining room spelled as dinning. It’s the room for making steady low noise.

Lack of foyers.

Purple prose descriptions. Just be factual.

Extreme open concepts with no walls.

+100 it's like a visual equivalent of nails on chalkboard

[Anonymous]

Flippers/renovators who replace classic six over six windows with single pane windows. Always looks cheap and horrendous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you count this as real estate it’s more mortgage. Charging people who don’t put 20% down PMI. It’s just an extra fee they charge and it’s not fair. If I can’t afford to save up 20% of a down payment gif have good enough credit to get a mortgage charging an extra fee is BS.

How about save 20% or rent? If you put very little money down, you have little incentive not to walk away if prices plunge 15%, which can happen. People seem to want a return to the mistakes of the 2008 bubble in the guise of “fairness”!

Paying high rents is why I couldn’t save 20% down. I still had really good credit though. That PMI could have been used towards the principal amount.

[Anonymous]

Fixer upper listings where there are no interior photos. We get it - the interior needs rehab. But are we dealing with dated wallpaper or holes in the ceiling? You aren’t convincing anyone to buy your wreck by not showing what they’re getting.

[Anonymous]

Lack of landscaping.
Big new homes without a deck and or a patio.