Ugly House Photos

These five family rooms need staging help quick.

Rent-a-Center repossessed the TV.  Now she can’t hide the pile of dust on the TV stand.  She hasn’t hid the ashtray full of cigarette butts either.  [Minot, North Dakota]

The bottle of bleach is not needed in this Olean, New York family room.  Just some boxes and a few hands.

Disheveled in Sun City West, Arizona.  Two old TVs.  They still work, I’d bet.

Blocking the window won’t stop buyers from seeing the mess.  [Phoenix]

Little Jimmy is proud of his hoard of toys.  See his head in the foreground?  See the dust on the ceiling fan blades?

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Instead of installing a ceiling fan or using a floor fan, these Mesa, Arizona sellers hung a desk fan to the wall.

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The ceiling fan looks new.  Too bad the rest of the room doesn’t.

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Buying a home is supposed to be the American dream.  The buyers of this home just got a nightmare.  The house had been in the family for years.  They refinanced in 1999 for $73,000.  They refinanced again in April 2006 for $140,000.  See if you can find $67,000 in home improvements anywhere in this house.  It sold recently, in this condition, as a short sale for $50,000.

Messy bedroom.

Is that a Twilight Eclipse movie poster?

Mom is very proud of her house.  And her chihuahua dog.  And the awesome paint job.

It was painted with careful attention to detail.

We’re not a fan of their decorating style.

It’s not looking any better from the opposite view.

Dirty bird cage.  Broken window patched up with plastic and duct tape.

Damaged wall.  From a large dog?

Damaged door.

The kitchen is in better shape than expected.

Two TVs.

We’ll look at the bathrooms next.

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Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to take a real estate photo from above.  Now we see all the dust.

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Please, someone buy this house and return it to its original glory.  The current owners haven’t maintained it very well.

They built an enclosed porch out front.  Why bother with a door? Thieves can just crawl through the open windows. Check out the door. It’s very short.

Here’s what the front porch looks like.

First impressions at the front door?

Let’s go inside now.  Check out the bathroom.  Lots of dust on that ceiling fan!

The kitchen looks surprisingly clean.

Bedroom crammed full.  If any of the kids complain, dad will use the paddle hanging on the left wall.

The air freshener gives a false sense of well-being in this bedroom.  They’ve blocked the window with a cabinet.  That’s the head of a small boy in the bottom right corner.

Let’s go outside and get some fresh air.  Oh, bad idea.

Let’s go up on the roof next.

“What do you mean we have to maintain the roof?”

“How was I supposed to know?  I couldn’t see it.”

“So whadya want me to do about it?”

“I’m just going to sell the house as-is.”

“Is the bad roof why that happened?”

“It happened over here.”

“And there too.”  As Bill Engvall says, “Here’s your sign.”

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It gets hot in the summer in Glendale, Arizona.  Dogs with heavy fur pant a lot.  So Fido’s owners cool him off with a ceiling fan and 3 floor fans.  Too many fans can be a turn-off for buyers; they might think the house gets too hot.

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We’re not a fan of dust or pet hair.  The fur was literally flying in this house; cat hair and dust piled onto the ceiling fan blades.

Security systems in use:  the club for their car, the dog for their house.

The sign reads:  Wo-Man Cave Howdy.

When did they first realize there was a problem?

That’s all we need to know about this home owners’ association:  they can only afford a stenciled sign and they have a graffiti problem.

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This might be news to some home owners, but homes do need maintenance.  This owner didn’t get the memo.

They paid $225,000 for this home in 2006 and thought that was all that was needed.

It was just purchased from the bank for $55,000. Now someone else gets to fix it up.

A little cleaning might have helped.

That hole wasn’t going to fix itself.

They turned a blind eye to the repairs needed around the house.

Replacing the A/C filters would have helped reduce dust in the air.

The closet door goes on this thing called a track.

Keeping water from splashing out of the shower would have prevented this.

Water heaters don’t last forever.

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Dirty Florence, Arizona home.  Your eyes are drawn more toward the dirty door than the gaping hole in the ceiling.

Washing hands was not a priority.

Why are there splash marks on the left wall?

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