When not to take real estate photos
When is it not a good idea to take inside shots of a home? When it looks like this. A floor plan would have been fine. This is just a joke.
Yes, this is an actual Vancouver listing. Actively for sale at the time of this writing.
Couldn't they close the cupboards?
Perhaps they wanted to “lower expectations”. Certainly a little better than the “hurry hurry, rare opportunity, won’t last” comments on listings that are 120 days old.
The sellers are clearly not that interested in making a positive impression, but the agent didn’t go too far out of his/her way either. We almost always have to juggle “stuff” to get the best possible image and either of these scenes could have been suitable for capture with a just a couple of minutes of effort. To bad that people are so comfortable showing the world how lazy they are. ):
That is one of my pet peeves with realtors that showcase homes with pics like these. It’s all about the first impression!
I think they are tenants that don’t want it to sell. The “professional” photographer “worked-to-rule” and took pictures. I wonder what a solution would be. Perhaps offering a free house cleaning to the angry tenants. Treat them like the clients and they might co-operate a bit more.