Ugly House Photos

The caption for this photo reads, “Sun Room.”  Sure looks it.  Not one ray of light is shining here.  They added Roman shades to keep any other light from reaching the main house.  Vampires?  Ugly flooring, dark walls, old wall A/C unit, old ceiling fan, wallpaper border.  Diamond Backs is a reference to a desert snake (and probably the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team).

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A buyer’s eyes should see the entire room without distraction, not focus on one item.

Like a giant basketball.

Or a giant banana.

Or an ‘X marks the spot’ quilt.

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Isn’t the saying, clean as you go?  This Glendale, Arizona seller wants to prove that he/she cleaned the house before putting it up for sale.  See?
[Thanks to one of our readers for sending these in!]
These are actual photos used to promote the sale of this home.

Cleaning the oven.

Vacuuming.

Scrubbing the toilet.

The toilet is now clean!  We thank you for caring.

Dusting the ceiling fan.  Are they selling the house or promoting the cleaning service?

The pool skimmer basket is clean.  You’ve proved your point about the house being clean.  But how about including photos of the actual house?!  Good grief.

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The caption for this photo states, “Bedrooms have ceiling fans.”  And a ton of stuffed animals.

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Nice job trying to cover up the wall cracks.  Big red flag to buyers.  Ugly window drapes that don’t match.
[The brownish-orange floor is stained concrete, done when the house was built; very common for Phoenix homes in the 1950s & 1960s; 99% of Phoenix homes are on slab foundations with concrete floors.]

The kitchen drawers are missing for some reason.

Ugly green carpet in the living room.  See how it wore down to the pad?

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The things people add to their homes.  Sigh.

1) Folding doors leading to a bedroom.  Missing light switch cover.

2) Mirror tiles with gold flakes.

3) Indestructible ceiling fan.  Angry home owner tried to pull it down when his house was foreclosed.

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Feel-good buzzwords are fun to paint on walls, aren’t they?  Especially when they distract you from dirt and clutter.  This home has dream, laugh, hope, & live words right next to a lot of ceiling fan dirt stuck to the popcorn ceiling.  I took this picture.  The house was a mess.  Buyers would laugh at it and only dream how they could live there; the sellers could only hope it would sell.

Here’s a different home with live, family, and love words mixed in with a ton of books and personal belongings.

Lots of junk on the counters.  And an ugly pot rack.  Metal saw blades used as placemats.  This home would show much better with proper home staging.

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You wonder if the guy at the Home Depot paint counter was secretly laughing when the order was placed.  Check out the crazy color choices at this Phoenix home.

Purple, blue, green, yellow, and red in the kitchen.  Buyers love dark kitchens?

Yellow, green, and blue in the living room (and on the ceiling) with wallpaper border too.

Blue and mustard yellow in a bedroom.  They might have spray painted the floor with black paint; see the over spray on the closet wall?

Orange and green in a room with no windows.  The bent ceiling fan blades tell me this was probably a foreclosure home and the owner was mad.  Ceiling fans never come down by pulling on them.  I’ve seen this a hundred times.  Eventually the angry person gives up.

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I really regret seeing this Phoenix foreclosure home yesterday.  Instant bombardment of cat urine smell and cigarette smoke upon entering the house.  There was so much cat fur floating around that it stuck to the ceiling fan blades.  Disgusting.

Gross!

There was cat feces on the floor throughout the house.  And lots of dark liquid stains on the walls (like tobacco spit).

The ceiling fan in the living room.  See the clumps of cat hair hanging on the blade?

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I had the displeasure of previewing this $111,000 home in north Phoenix.  The room addition was built without a city building permit.  And it showed.  Here’s a wall mural of the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd logos.

Another view.

An unexplained hole in the wall next to the Rolling Stones logo.  Shouldn’t it be on the Pink Floyd side as another brick in the wall?

Part of the addition to the house, with wood paneling.

One of the bedrooms served as a bathroom for a dog or incontinent human.

The view from the other side of the room.  I had to hold my breath.

Ugly ceiling fan with a bad ceiling repair.

A lot of problems with the ceiling drywall throughout the house.

They caulked the windows with that orange spray foam stuff.

The patio.

This is how they store their extra fluorescent light bulbs outside on the patio.

The kitchen.

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