The room with the dirty carpet also has a window with a broken seal - you can see the moisture condensed inside. The bird poop and crooked pavers are on the waterfront photos. But maybe there is also a problem with the half circle windows, lol.
lol. I we are looking at a lower price point so I don't either. (our budget is about 2% of that house, lol)
However, I've visited houses with windows where the seal broke and pavers were cracked. The agent always jump up to say "they'll fix the window" or "watch your step." It doesn't stop us from considering the house but our agent would spot all that in a hot second even if we didn't see it. So you know their people saw that stuff.
The sellers must be quite a piece of work if their agent saw those photos, saw the bird poop, dirty carpets, crooked pavers, and broken windows and were like: Fuck it. It's a million dollar commission but who gives a shit. Lets not bother to wash the posts, chose a different photo, or crop that out. Load it up on MLS.
Post by RitzyHeifer on Sept 14, 2021 12:11:11 GMT -5
I did notice that stuff but I’m… detail oriented, shall we say?
I almost literally LOLd at the photo with the car - either they used that enlarging lens thing that realtors use, or that is a special elongated-front-end Porsche,
It appears to be bank owned, those listings tend to be not as polished, no matter the price point.
I'd also argue that if you're in the market for property that has a house, artist studio, pool house, beach house AND a caretakers house.... one broken window, some dirt and crooked pavers (which I really couldn't see at all - and I was LOOKING) isn't really going to register, much less affect the desire to buy the house.
I'll say too - our family room rug has gotten a LOT of wear over the years. We shampoo it but some shit just doesn't want to come out anymore!!
The sellers must be quite a piece of work if their agent saw those photos, saw the bird poop, dirty carpets, crooked pavers, and broken windows and were like: Fuck it. It's a million dollar commission but who gives a shit. Lets not bother to wash the posts, chose a different photo, or crop that out. Load it up on MLS.
I still can't see any of these things, but I'm on my phone and not full screen, so maybe that's it. But the quoted: yes. When we sold a (much less expensive) property in CA last year, the realtor freaking pressure washed the side of the garage and planted some new flowers herself because she wanted it perfect. It's weird that the agents here didn't get all this stuff cleaned or replaced to perfection before listing.
lol. I we are looking at a lower price point so I don't either. (our budget is about 2% of that house, lol)
However, I've visited houses with windows where the seal broke and pavers were cracked. The agent always jump up to say "they'll fix the window" or "watch your step." It doesn't stop us from considering the house but our agent would spot all that in a hot second even if we didn't see it. So you know their people saw that stuff.
The sellers must be quite a piece of work if their agent saw those photos, saw the bird poop, dirty carpets, crooked pavers, and broken windows and were like: Fuck it. It's a million dollar commission but who gives a shit. Lets not bother to wash the posts, chose a different photo, or crop that out. Load it up on MLS.
I haven’t been a seller yet, and our price point is also much lower (obviously), but I’ve yet to meet an agent in the Bay Area who gives a shit. It’s always like, Here’s a crappy house. Offers are due Thursday at 10am. They’re expecting at least 20% over asking.
I also think that anyone who’s going to pay $28m for a property probably wants to put their own stamp on it because rich people gonna rich. Or it’ll be turned into a corporate retreat of some sort.
That house is selling 99% based on location and ocean view. Anyone with $28MM laying around who is looking for a Bay Area waterfront home with views like that knows that inventory is going to be more than a little limited and will gloss over a failed window seal.
It looks like a disaster of bird poop and stained carpet, but I'd be willing to overlook those egregious flaws for a 100% reduction in the asking price.
It appears to be bank owned, those listings tend to be not as polished, no matter the price point.
That makes sense. I browse ridiculous listings for fun, and usually you get glossy presentation, video drone footage with music swelling, blah, blah, blah.
This thread just reminds me of when we were house shopping. We still had cable and I'd watch HGTV and want to shout at buyers who are complaining about not liking door handles and faucet fixtures on a property that's $300k for a something that was practically a mansion by my standards.
I don't know that I've ever seen/heard of a real estate show focused on Bay Area, CA listings. We seem to shop/list much differently than most. Lime green bathrooms with a pink toilet? Still gonna go look at it. We did end up buying a house that had about 1/5 of all the windows failed (and they're still failed... they're "on the list.")
When we sold I remember asking our agent.. do we need to fix stuff? Paint? Stage? Declutter? And he was like.. wtf? No! Not unless you want to. It will be fine.
That house is selling 99% based on location and ocean view. Anyone with $28MM laying around who is looking for a Bay Area waterfront home with views like that knows that inventory is going to be more than a little limited and will gloss over a failed window seal.
This. We spent an amount I don't want to note on our new house, but it was not small. We also know that we had very specific things we were looking for - 4 to 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, didn't want to move schools, but most notable is that wanted a single family home on the lot instead of the "2 on a lot" format that many lots in our school zone have. These houses come to market 1 or 2 times per year, so inventory is scarce. When we found the house we bought, we looked at it for like 10 minutes at the open house, looked through the online pictures and made an offer. We didn't even notice the small things that were wrong like missing caulking around the bath fixtures in the master, a broken outside light glass encasing and a few chipped tiles. If we had, we would have made the same offer, because we know that in this neighborhood, it will be a year before a house that meets our criteria appears again.
This thread just reminds me of when we were house shopping. We still had cable and I'd watch HGTV and want to shout at buyers who are complaining about not liking door handles and faucet fixtures on a property that's $300k for a something that was practically a mansion by my standards.
I don't know that I've ever seen/heard of a real estate show focused on Bay Area, CA listings. We seem to shop/list much differently than most. Lime green bathrooms with a pink toilet? Still gonna go look at it. We did end up buying a house that had about 1/5 of all the windows failed (and they're still failed... they're "on the list.")
When we sold I remember asking our agent.. do we need to fix stuff? Paint? Stage? Declutter? And he was like.. wtf? No! Not unless you want to. It will be fine.
OMG this reminds me of when my roommate and I looked for an apartment in SF right out of college in the late 90s. They either didn't have parking and was in North Beach, aka you will never find street parking. Had weird bathrooms. One you had to walk through the first bedroom to get to the second bedroom. One had different carpet that was old and stained in each room - there was a green carpet room, a red carpet room, etc. One had one huge bedroom and one bedroom that I had doubts a bed would fit in. Bedrooms without windows. When we found the place we rented, we visited it at night after work, the electricity was not on because the old tenants were out already, so we toured it with flashlights. The carpet was consistent throughout, it had parking and laundry in the building, the rooms were similar size, it had a full kitchen and all appliances except the dishwasher worked. We signed the lease then and there without even seeing it in the full light.
Post by Jalapeñomel on Sept 14, 2021 14:41:24 GMT -5
I would do nothing. Lol
If someone wants to spend 28 million on a home, I’d assume they were gonna do whatever they wanted with it, and it wouldn’t matter what the windows or whatever looked like.
This thread just reminds me of when we were house shopping. We still had cable and I'd watch HGTV and want to shout at buyers who are complaining about not liking door handles and faucet fixtures on a property that's $300k for a something that was practically a mansion by my standards.
I don't know that I've ever seen/heard of a real estate show focused on Bay Area, CA listings. We seem to shop/list much differently than most. Lime green bathrooms with a pink toilet? Still gonna go look at it. We did end up buying a house that had about 1/5 of all the windows failed (and they're still failed... they're "on the list.")
When we sold I remember asking our agent.. do we need to fix stuff? Paint? Stage? Declutter? And he was like.. wtf? No! Not unless you want to. It will be fine.
What I’ve found about the Bay Area is that it’s the floor, not the ceiling, that’s truly eye-popping. Like the amount of competition for anything under $3m is what’s nuts. We went to an open house last week for a $2 million listing where the entire house needed to be torn down and rebuilt. It was packed with people, like a party. (To be fair, the outside property was amazing. People were just chilling in the backyard taking in the view.) It’s depressing here.
Lime green bathrooms with a pink toilet? Still gonna go look at it.
I love these bathrooms! My new favorite instagram account is @vintagebathroomlove on IG.
I know what you mean though. I live in NYC and I knew going into house hunting that we were never going to get everything we wanted. I DO have in-unit laundry and in return I put up with a lot.
When we sold I remember asking our agent.. do we need to fix stuff? Paint? Stage? Declutter? And he was like.. wtf? No! Not unless you want to. It will be fine.
I wonder if the Marin realtors are unusual, then.
If we buy, we will only sell to someone who plans to gut it and rebuild. We are selling/buying or rebuilding because of all the problems inherent in the way the houses in our neighborhood were initially built. I'm not putting lipstick on this pig to catch a new unsuspecting family. Nonetheless, even for a one time, off market, showing *to a developer* our agent wants us to fix any cosmetic stuff, store any personal stuff offsite, and practically stage it. Off market listings regularly get fully staged and fancy drone footage videos. Every bad listing we've visited had at least new paint.
What I’ve found about the Bay Area is that it’s the floor, not the ceiling, that’s truly eye-popping.
So true. A 1,200 sqft house down the street with new paint but visible mold all over the floor in the photos (pulling up the carpet must have been a surprise moment for them) just sold for 1.8. No views.