Edmonton’s Unbelievably Bad Real Estate Photo Hall of Fame

by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 30. Jan, 2008 in Around Edmonton

We’re not the first to do it and we certainly won’t be the last, but we’ve put together a little montage of truly terrible photos found on MLS. Enjoy!

   

If you really can’t get enough bad MLS photos check out this site – he posts a new one everyday!

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16 Responses to “Edmonton’s Unbelievably Bad Real Estate Photo Hall of Fame”

  1. Alex 30. Jan, 2008 at 9:14 am #

    The truly terrible photos you can see here: MLS®: E3123131

  2. Simplemath 30. Jan, 2008 at 10:26 am #

    “Who takes these pictures and publishes them?”

    A valuable Realtor(TM)?

  3. karl 30. Jan, 2008 at 10:40 am #

    Alex,
    MLS# E3123131
    All you have to do is rotate your head!

  4. tery 30. Jan, 2008 at 11:08 am #

    Read it suncor expansion aboost to edmonton real estate eventually. More jobs more people- A chain raction linked

    http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e1f7d3c0-16a2-4b8d-a715-eecea35b2208&k=86205

    Cheers

  5. sabb 30. Jan, 2008 at 11:30 am #

    tery, as insightful as your article reference is, it has nothing to do with poor pictures on the MLS site.

  6. BearClaw 30. Jan, 2008 at 1:26 pm #

    What about newspaper ads with glam shots of Realtor face then no house. Thats always good for a laugh.

  7. Sean 30. Jan, 2008 at 2:32 pm #

    Category 7 cracks me up. I saw a house on Comfree once that had every square inch of the kitchen counters piled high of dirty dishes. Made me want to rush and go have a look at that house!

    Cheers!

  8. Nate 30. Jan, 2008 at 2:51 pm #

    I have a friend trying to his home down in Calgary right now. Kids toys all over the porch and the house is a mess. I don’t think they’ve cleaned their kitchen since the house was built last year.

    On the market 3 months so far, go go gadget flipper!

  9. Matt Collinge - the 604homesguy 30. Jan, 2008 at 5:29 pm #

    Those are terrible. Itry to post one weekly but have been slacking off for months.

    But are they worse than no pic at all. In the Vacouver MLS it looks like this.http://www.604homes.com/blogs/matthew_collinge/archive/2008/01/26/worst-mls-picture-ever.aspx

    Cheers from snowy Vancouver.

  10. sabb 31. Jan, 2008 at 4:29 pm #

    Found this MLS pic:

    E3125267

    Apparently this whole condo block is for sale. No picture would have been better then a picture of the sign.

  11. Sara MacLennan 31. Jan, 2008 at 4:34 pm #

    In that case the condo has tenants, who probably didn’t want photographs of the property taken…so it’s not really fair to pick on that one ;)

  12. Norm Fisher 31. Jan, 2008 at 5:29 pm #

    Well done.

    I’m no longer amazed at the poor photography that exists in real estate but I just can’t figure out why sellers don’t put their foot down.

  13. Craig Pilgrim 01. Feb, 2008 at 10:41 pm #

    I’ve never understood why our colleagues take (never mind upload) pictures of ‘typical’ 4-piece main baths, laundry rooms, and/ or garages…??

  14. Athol Kay 02. Feb, 2008 at 9:24 am #

    Agree with Norm. Sellers are foolish to not simply fire the realtor on the spot for awful photos of the house.

  15. Lisa 01. Mar, 2008 at 1:58 pm #

    Why would you post this? Reminder: EREB’s philosophy “members serving members”

  16. Sara MacLennan 01. Mar, 2008 at 2:22 pm #

    We’re helping the other members out by offering them advice: take better photos!