Real Estate Agent Posts 25 Of The Worst Home Design Finds By Her Fellow Agents
He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff’s talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush–and that was all.
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Gerard Van der Leun
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A sentimental favorite and on my brain jukebox Top 40; “I Can’t Get Started” begins with the dotted eighth/sixteenth swing translation of the written eighths as the simple C-chord is played in arpeggio. Not that anyone needed to know that. Opening and closing scenes of “Save The Tiger” (Jack Lemmon 1973, written by Steve Shagan) are shown with this haunting lament.
The 1937 version (also recorded in ’36 for a movie soundtrack without the opening flourishes) by Bunny Berrigan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVj0cV1omVo
Those were some very interesting designs. I cannot wait for Ghost’s input on such creativity.
This one’s my favorite. My enemies would only be able to come at me from the front:
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just so no one thinks I’ve lost my mind my comment was related to the lyric from “I Can’t Get Started” noted by the title of Gerard’s post.
Hey Snake – I aim to please.
Don’t mistake that nastiness for “home design”.
Real estate agents are the LEAST knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to anything house or building.
So ya want a little story to go along with it, eh?
Here ya go.
I have designed over 7000 building projects spanning more than 40 years, from simple residential porch additions and interior retail remodeling, to 12,000 square foot custom homes for famous sports stars you’ve heard of and the Sarasota Justice System – courthouse and jail, and the Tampa Bay Stadium. I wrote the book.
I have also been a licensed real estate agent since 1991 though I have never worked in that capacity – I simply wanted the education.
In 2005 I hired the most successful real estate company in the history of Florida to sell our almost new custom home. I had no idea the depth of insanity I was in for. Over the next 6 months more than 300 potential customers tromped through our house, with us under the illusion someone wanted to buy our crib. Silly me. Believe it or not, in southwest Florida, there is a plethora of sub-retarded people running loose that spend their weekends rolling through houses for sale with never any intention of purchasing. They are THAT bored. A dollar to a donut says most of them are not capable of purchasing real property. The real estate agents can’t be bothered to “pre-qualify” potential customers. “Come one, come all, to the the show that never ends!” How many of these people were casing our crib to come back later and rob us? Maybe that Gettysburg brand fireproof steel vault in my home office gave em a clue.
Not only are real estate agents not bothered to pre-qualify customers but they cannot be bothered to do even basic cursory education on what the homes in their current folder are all about. Serious. They had a print out card that stated the number of bedrooms and baths, number of car garage, whether the place had a pool or not and a couple other elementary things. If a potential customer stepped outside that narrow barrier they received, “That’s a good question! I’ll contact the owner and get back to you!” sigh If you can’t answer ALL questions right on the spot you’re in the wrong business. Because our home was designed and built by me it had hundreds of custom features that just cannot be found in most homes and the customers were not being made aware of it. We weren’t getting our money’s worth and we were unsatisfied with Century 21’s Sunbelt service.
Know who sold our house?
My wife. And she has nothing to do with real estate, at all.
But she had a goal and come hell or high water she was going to achieve it.
She bought the domain: http://www.southwestfloridahomeforsale.com , hired our son the IT engineer to assemble the site, and a week later we were getting calls from across the country and around the world. A month later our house sold for MORE than we were asking and my real estate education was complete. We still had to pay $38k to the agency even though they had nothing to do with it.
We moved here to the great white north later that year and we found real estate agents are as stupid and lazy here as they are elsewhere. I’m not sure of the reason for this, except that it must be very easy to get a license so all sorts of nitwits have invaded the field. Just like every other field or profession out there today.
Regarding anything a real estate agent says, don’t. Just don’t. They are the used car salesmen of the housing world. Regarding those appalling house interior pictures, we’ve all known people like that, no? People with more dollars than brains, and the unfortunate souls with no dollars and no brains. Is this a new thing for real estate agents, to stick their fingers in the eyes of their customers? And for that they require a 6% real estate fee? Maybe that’s why they show 35 homes for each house they sell, and then their fee is watered down amongst all the collaborating brokers and multi-listing sevices to where when it’s all said and done they get a paltry $300.
How about this idea, invest yourself into your future and your career and stop being stupid and lazy? Spend an hour educating your customers – the people that are hiring you to sell the home. Be assertive, aggressive even, be smart, be empathetic. Teach the customers what they need to know to be successful home sellers that get the most money they can for their home. Be truthful. This is where being a good communicator comes into play – after all, it’s they only way to have successful relationships with people. For example, if the homeowner has curtain rods installed on strange angles over the large window in the living room tell them that is not a good thing. In the same breath tell them they need to install a set of curtain rods properly. Etc., etc. Explain that these things will lower the expectations of the potential buyers and that will be reflected in their offers. It’s called “Staging”, where the home is brought up to the proper condition in order to warrant a sale. If the customer is unwilling to comply with your educated suggestions then you should let them seek sales service from another company. Believe it or not people wanting to buy a home are not impressed with thousands of listings of homes that are substandard like those in the link.
Good grief. Were the designers/decorators on LSD?
That resin toilet seat would be great if it were filled with scorpions instead of butterflies. For the guest bathroom when unwanted visitors make an unexpected appearance.
Snakie has it exactly correct: most agents are full of sh** and “sales techniques” and neither are good for much of anything.
“sub-retarded” and “used car salesmen of the housing world”. Ghost does not disappoint!