Entries from June 2008
This bedroom is too taste-specific for most buyers. There’s so much going on with the Native American décor that it makes your eyes wiggle. The pink walls don’t help either.

Check out the “art work” above the bed; it looks like a Taos Airstream travel home and Devil’s Tower from Wyoming (see below).
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Tags: Staging · Bedroom · Clutter · Phoenix Homes · Fake Plants & Flowers
Real Estate Statistics For Phoenix, Arizona – June 30, 2008For the city of Phoenix only, as of June 29, 2008. Numbers are based on the orange 90-day lines.
Average days on market for Phoenix properties: 94 days (same as last two weeks)

Median sales price for Phoenix properties: $238,593 (down $1,786 from last week)

Median price per square foot for Phoenix properties: $144/sqft (down $1 from last week)

Inventory of properties for sale in Phoenix: 10,251 (up 33 from last week)
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Tags: Phoenix Homes
The religious painting on the wall could be a turn-off for some buyers. Plus the flagstone flooring.
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Tags: Flooring · Phoenix Homes · Faux Paint & Murals · Fake Plants & Flowers
Probably the original owner of this Mesa, Arizona home. Note the old carpet, old furniture, curio cabinet, heavy drapes, and butter churn.

Check out the original kitchen from the 1950s!
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Tags: Carpet · Window Coverings · Phoenix Homes · Wallpaper
Outdated family room with heavy wood paneling. Family photos, ugly couch, and old phone on a stool too.
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Wood Paneling · Ugly Couches/Chairs · Family Photos
Or is it? Let’s see… There’s a “beware of dog” sign on the closed front gate. And there are boxes and junk blocking your way to the front door. Other unappealing features: several power line spindles out front, other junk & scrap wood out front, an ugly African sumac tree, and a rusty evaporative cooler on the right side of the house.
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Tags: Curb Appeal · Clutter · Phoenix Homes
Disgusting home in Sarasota, Florida. My first thought it that this is the kitchen, but now I’m not so sure. The full bucket of dirty water is sure to attract mosquitoes. Yuk.

Here’s the front of the house.

And the side. The mattresses are included with the sale.
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Tags: Garbage and/or Junk · Dirt, Dust, & Filth · Fixer-Upper · Other US Cities
Earthquake! Earthquake! Everybody run for cover!! San Mateo’s being hit by a massive earthquake!

[actual unretouched photo used to promote the sale of this home]
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Tags: Bedroom · Poor Photography · Other US Cities
That’s one crazy house in Detroit! Sure would be easy to find.
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Tags: What Were They Thinking?!?! · Other US Cities
In a way, I’m hoping this house for sale in Orlando, Florida is being sold “for sale by owner” because of the bare foot photographer. Would be very embarrassing for my peers if the photographer was the listing agent. Why would he take a photo of outdated brass-trimmed mirrored closet doors? Check out the crazy red and blue wall paint too!
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Tags: Paint · Poor Photography · Other US Cities