Ugly House Photos

Messy Wickenburg, Arizona home.  Not quite ready to show to buyers.  Let’s clean it up/out first.

Doesn’t get any better in the dining area.

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I showed homes this morning to a couple, and they commented, “Why do people keep their homes so dark?”  Buyers like homes to be light & bright, but sellers instead keep all the shades down.

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Retro cool?

Wickenburg, Arizona home.

The rest are from Phoenix homes.

Something borrowed, something old, something blue?

Old-fashioned bathroom.

Very retro.  Green carpet.  Grass wallpaper.

Looking to the right.

Shiny blue chair.

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More like a pipe nightmare.  Here’s a home in Crown King, Arizona with some repair issues.  Under the house, the seller made his own plumbing repairs.  He duct taped the sewer line, and not very well.  It leaks into the crawl space.  Yuk.  Thank goodness the home inspector found it.

The floor joist in the center of the house is split.  The crack is eight feet long!

Photos courtesy of Brian Quisberg, Inspector/Owner of Desert Estates Home Inspections.

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One item can dominate a real estate promotional photo and leave a lasting impression.  It becomes the focus of attention.  Do you notice anything else in these three photos?

The cat tower in a dining room.

The surfboard in a bedroom (B. Babushka has to do with Billabong women’s clothing).

A big red truck in Apache Junction, Arizona.

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Foreclosure home in Tucson, Arizona.  The boat’s included with the home purchase.  Do they know something we don’t?  Is a flood coming?  Or is this the set for ABC’s Cougar Town TV show (Bobby’s dry-docked boat)?

Are those storm clouds building in the far distance?  Why are animals approaching the house?

[Thanks to one of our readers for sending these photos]

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Goodyear, Arizona.  Site of the world’s best fire pit ever.  The photo’s caption reads, “Fire pit.”  No lie.

The world’s largest marble sits on the dining table.  Why?  Family photos complete the picture.

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More over-the-top home décor in a Casa Grande, Arizona home.  Tea-stained walls.  French country chic with requisite rooster.  Yuk.

Words like brocade, tromp l’oeil, fleur de lis, olde world charm, etc. get used a lot to fluff up room descriptions.

Just shoot me.

They might bolster this room’s appeal to more buyers by toning down the French whore house look.

[Disclaimer:  Opinions are like belly buttons; everyone’s got one.  Except for Kyle XY.]

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The Christmas tree is the least of the problems in this cramped, cluttered, claustrophobic living room.

It doesn’t get any better looking down on it.  Imagine how nice this home would look with everything cleared out.  Nice plantation shutters, nice paint color, upgraded tile flooring on the diagonal, tall ceiling.  Lost opportunity to impress buyers.

Our Christmas gift to our readers:  this lovely bathroom.  Hope you like it.  But we’ll have to hurt you if you dare to touch the towels!

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Better hurry and get your laundry done before Santa comes to visit.

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