Ugly House Photos

Two examples of graffiti vandalism.

Boys R Toys, they say.

The mental age of this graffiti hoodlum is 8.

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We’re trying to find something nice to say about this house.

They saved money by not paying for a building permit for the room addition?  The back door is eco-friendly?  They recycle?  The electric panel is accessible?

They save time & energy by not having landscaping?  They didn’t waste money on a concrete driveway?  It’s a big lot?

The refrigerator is included with the sale?  The house has gas service?  The gas line serves as a cup holder?

The cabinets look new?  There’s a window above the sink?  Nice.

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No sense cleaning up this house and selling it for more money.  Just let the buyer pay less and handle it him/herself.  Makes sense, right?  30 minutes of labor expenses to clean it up versus selling it for $5,000 less than the asking price.

Looks like a cat in the window but it’s plastic, paper, or fabric.

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A major toilet paper company is beta-testing an ultra soft toilet paper in Phoenix.  It’s pastel yellow and comes in big rolls.

If you want to curl your hair, just grab the red wire and the black wire while showering!

The kitchen’s much more spacious now without the cabinets.

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Thanks, graffiti criminals, for lowering the price of this foreclosure home and the prices for the neighbors too.

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I checked out a fixer-upper and did not expect this.  The front perimeter of the house is lined with empty MD 20/20 wine bottles.  MD 20/20 is a very cheap bottled wine (13-18% alcohol) known as Mad Dog.  It’s in the class of wines called “bum wines” like Thunderbird or Ripple.  It comes in seven flavors.

Here’s the left side of the house.  Someone had fun drinking those.

And the front of the house.  A total of 75 bottles.  The house, by the way, is missing a roof and its insides (just like the drinker of this cheap wine now has damaged insides).

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You wanted a white picket fence, you got it.  Or at least half of it.

The metal roof is a cheap alternative to more efficient roofing.

It looks like a Super Slide from the state or county fair.  Whee!  (Is that RuPaul on the right side?)

Top notch wiring & weatherproofing where the main house meets the porch.

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This was a beautiful home.  It went into foreclosure and became vacant.  Vandals entered the home and destroyed it.  What a shame.

What suffers the most is the neighborhood and the home values there.

A cash investor bought it for pennies on the dollar.

Paint was thrown on the floor.

Every room of the house was hit by graffiti and drywall damage.  We spared you from seeing swear words.

The cabinets were mostly left alone.

New windows and drywall will solve most of the damage here.

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Here’s a tale of woe for a Phoenix home.  It was purchased in January 2007 for $405,000.  This is the master bathroom in 2007 with pretty (old) wallpaper.

The owners then gutted the house for a total renovation but ran out of money.  They tried selling it “as is” by short sale in 2009 without any luck.  The house was foreclosed and sold by the bank in April 2010 for $170,000 in this condition.

The rest of the master bathroom today.

This was the kitchen in 2007.

The “kitchen” in 2009 and 2010.

Oh, that big square hole?  That’s the staircase down to a basement/rec room area.  Here’s another view.

Here’s the house back in 2007 with green grass, bushes, and living trees.

The house photo in 2010 now shows dead grass, no bushes, and a large dead tree.

The new owners could pump $100,000 into this house (though not that much is needed) and still come out ahead.

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Remember, folks, people used to live here.  Look at it now.  A fixer-upper for someone else to deal with.

Faux block/brick wall design.

Another room with dirty walls.

The living room.

It was the kitchen.

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