The Broke Agent is a media brand that creates entertainment for real estate professionals. But the beauty of it is that you don't have to be in the industry to enjoy its content. Sure, that would unlock a deeper level of understanding and appreciation but it's not necessary.
Just look at its project Real Estate Fails, for example. Full of ridiculous architectural and interior design hiccups, it shares pictures from the ridiculous side of the housing market, proving that some agents don't have everything under control. Whether it's due to their own fault, the owners, or unfortunate circumstances, there are plenty of things that might deter potential buyers.
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I live in a fairly rural part of suburbia. There's a working farm about 1.5km down the road from my house. Every winter, the farmer parks his antique tractor in the field at the crossroads and covers it with fairy lights. The bougie folks in the nearby McMansions do nothing but complain about this. He is not swayed by their Karenness. Also, a couple of years ago, he got a rooster. He doesn't have any chickens, just the rooster. We hear it c**k-a-doodle-dooing every morning, and periodically through the day, and I really hope it annoys the living daylights out of the Karens.
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If you're already accustomed to neighbours who make funny sounds, smell bad, and have sex outdoors, animals might be a pleasant change
When I moved to Seattle one of the first local news items I saw was folks moving to Cougar Mountain and complaining about the cougars.
That is not a fail. It is a win against the people who have no clue what living next to a farm means.
From the POV of a rea who is trying to sell the property next door, it's a fail!
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Cause all we hear is moos and oinks or whatever animal is having sex.
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Some woman in my NYC apartment building put up a sign complaining about the traffic noises... You can imagine the responses she got!
There was a guy here in Oregon that was so upset with the noise from traffic he started shooting at cars. :/
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i mean… i think there’s some common sense to this one. at least they gave people a warning
I much prefer good sense. Commoners are such idiots as observed by Lord Atkinson.
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As my "number one city in the country" is gentrifying, all of the new implants are in arms about the farms which have been here for 50-100+ years. It's so frustrating
Just like the idiots that buy a home under the approach to a major airport and and are SHOCKED to learn that planes fly there.
We bought a mobile home basically next to a small airport. I remember being told about it by the sales lady. It's sorta like getting used to traffic noise in the city. No big deal. Once in a while it does sound like a plane or helicopter is going to land on our roof!
Load More Replies... I live outside of a city in Canton de Vaud next to many farms. It was heaven up to 35 years ago. Now there's no longer any farms where I would buy fresh milk right out of the cows who were behind were I live. I would fall a sleep with sound of their big Swiss bells around their necks, now there is just hundreds of appartement buildings, shopping malls, thousands of cars and no more the sweet smell of hay and the rooster that would wake me up, so much better than an annoying alarm clock. All my veggies and fruits were bought at the farms, every thing was bio so much cheaper than in the big supper markets and so much better tasting. I truly regret those times, now all I smell are the stink of cars, the noise of cars, no more beautiful forest or fields, no more birds, neither butterflies or bees, this is now called progress.
In Chicago, folks in my neighborhood bought condos next to a dance club - and then complained about the dance music.
In my suburban subdivision we are not allowed to keep goats. That makes me sad. And I don’t even really care much for goats or goatherding. I am mostly enamored with the fantasy of keeping goats. My sister-in-law kept goats in her backyard many years ago, and it made her happy. I think that is what I am jealous of. That is my goat story. The End.
Yes, also to the people who bought property next to the local stock-car track in the off-season. "It's a race track people! There will be loud car noises, lights and crowds every weekend, All. Summer. Long. If you don't like drunks, loud cars and traffic. DON'T MOVE HERE!"
I have family who have owned a dairy farm for over a century. There was a time they were surrounded by other farms. When other farms were sold, people from the city were buying up the properties and then trying to close down what other farms were left because they didn't want the smell. These poor farmers had to hire attorneys to save their livelihood. Lesson in all of this... Know the area where your buying and if something bothers you, move elsewhere.
"Unless you can tolerate NOISE, ODORS, AND OUTDOOR SEX...", it's still about farm animals, right?
The first time I saw one of these signs was at a farm in western Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, telling people that horses and cows *do* lay down to rest, and that people need to *STOP* calling 911 (emergency number used in the USA) about fields full of dead animals.
We bought a land for a house next to a farm. In the contract was "there are cows, cows make noise and smell. You are not allowed to bitch about cows" in legalese.
From a town of 600 here, but my dream would to be be on a farmstead....
Load More Replies... This sign if much more effective than the "Right to Farm" signs — city people have no idea what they mean until they're behind a manure spreader going 10 miles an hour on a winding road.
People are stupid. They buy houses next to airports, farms, factories, highways, malls, schools, erc. then complain endlessly about the noise, smells, pollution, traffic and parking problems.
I live close to two military bases that have been here since WWII. (I have lived here since 1951). People moving to the area complain about the Air Force planes being too noisy. The Army practice ranges, tanks and other "noises". I say both bases were here long before they decided to move close to the "darn noises". They knew but moved close anyway. So, their problem, stop b***h'n. Me, I like those noises. I live about 14 blocks from the incoming planes. I salute the planes as they fly over my house.
LOL, some people want the country, BUT not what goes on in the country~
If someone ever complains, then they can just point to the sign
Nothing is perfect. You get woken up at 5am by a rooster but you're not breathing exhaust fumes anymore. You just have to figure out which "negatives" you can live with.
Love it when people buy a house next to train tracks, then complain about the noise. What did they think would happen?
Love it, I have seen this sign at the driveway of a farm here in Vermont
Sheesh, and I thought people who buy property next to churches with functional bell towers and complain about the bells had issues.
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If this was my farm/sign, I would just have to take the opportunity to enjoy some afternoon delight on the front lawn myself... simply out of spite for all the whiners. After all.... We are ALL animals.
Devon UK someone moved into a house by a church and complained about the church bells that had been ringing for over 300 years, a noise order was placed on the bells until the issue could be sorted.
My major annoyance is whining morons that move into a house next door to a pub that clearly states it has a live music licence, then immediately spends months complaining to the council to get their licence revoked, leading to the pub having to close.
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You know, this is funny and i’ve seen a similar sign. Land sold that but’s up against a farm. People buying the homes up against the pasture, so they don’t have to deal with neighbors building behind them. Then they b***h about the smell, the flys, and just about anything else they can b***h about in their oh so boring lives. Me, I’m not a farmer, never been one, but I love the animals, don’t mind what comes with them, I would not buy near a large scale any farm, but small hobby farm, I’ll take what comes with them any day, before living next to the bitchers.
Love it! You do have to tell certain people these things nowadays as everyone seems to live in an ignorant bubble.
I was a county attorney for a rural area that was rapidly suburbanizing and we had to deal with this issue constantly. The stinky manure spread on the fields, the crowing roosters, the loud farm machinery. People would also move out to the country and think oh wow my dogs can just be free. So they would leave them out at night and they would meet up with other dogs into packs and kill neighboring livestock. Seriously.
That should be a standard issue sign for every townie looking to buy a second home in OUR countryside lol. You'd be amazed how many of these morons call the police about noise nuisance from pigs (squealing loudly in the early hours), cockerels (waking them up too early), and - yes, it's true! - animals corrupting their little darlings but doing what comes naturally in broad daylight on their own property 😱🤣
Our county had to self-determine as an agricultural county because so many city folks wanted a house in the country, without the country.
Wait till there's nice weather and you just want to relax in your garden and two or three redneck families around you decide it's time to target practice with EVERY GOD DAMN GUN THEY OWN ALL F*****G DAY. -.- i've put up with that s**t for 40+ years. Why can't we get some god damn noise laws? Because it's their 2nd amendment right. Lovely how they can't seem to read the whole thing and regulate that bull s**t.
Not long ago, a couple who moved from the city to a small, rural town near here stood up at a city council meeting and asked if the farmers could start later in the day because the tractors were too noisy too early in the morning. I would have paid big bucks to have been in that room and heard the response from some of those older farmers. Scents n Stories
I saw this very sign here in central Vermont.... as if the McMansion people didn't know, right? But now the investors are buying up every scrap of available land from the older farming generation who have no one to pass it on to...NO FARMS NO FOOD
This is 100%what they b***h about! We have pigs and horses, etc. They complain about flies, horse smells, all of the good stuff!!!
The MUCH bigger problem is when the state allows some kind of corporation to build a polluting facility near existing homes and the homeowners have no recourse..deal w being poisoned or attempt to sell, which is usually not an option unless they take a huge loss bc nobody wants to buy. On that same point, living next to a farm is ideal imo, UNLESS it's an industrial farm..that is entirely different and on par w the above situation.
It’s just like people buying next to a farm and then complain about everything: flies, smells,
Just like people who build next to airfields, then complain about the noise
I feel like there's something seriously wrong with people who complain about natural environments especially when they've choose to move there. It's like they're literally mad about mother nature and the world and how it really works.
I love this sign and would fully support if I lived in an area with a lot of farms. I myself am not crazy about the smells from farms, but I also did not buy property next to or near a farm either, lol.
For the past few years, hipsters have been moving into the neighborhood b*tching and complaining about the noise. You moved next to a gd airport, you morons!
Family from NY bought the house next to my mom. They couldn't back up more than to swing the rear of the car into the yard so they could drive forward down the driveway, put up floodlights all around the house (it's too dark in the country) and then proceeded to cut down beautiful 100+ year old oaks and other hardwoods (leaves - no concept that leaves from all the other trees not on his property were still going to still end up on his property). They didn't live there long.
I have friend who has a horse riding, boarding property. The new subdivision has told them they have move the dung pile. The horse property has been there for about 30 years., The snobs have made every one life miserable.
If y'all "City Folk" can't handle All this... Then Move back to the City & let Us have back the Country
Any city fool that thinks about moving into my area and tries to tell me what to do on MY property is going to get an earful. I moved to the country specifically to be as far away from people as possible, to grow my own food and to live self-sufficently. "Why don't you just go to the store and buy it" is LAZY and I will have nothing to do with that mentality.
Yup. Idiots in CT bought a house next to a dairy then sued because of the cow smell nextdoor.
You could replace "animals" with "humans" and this statement would still hold true
Some people in my in-laws' area complained about the sounds from a nearby abattoir. Which had been there for decades. Do your research: if you don't like the neighbourhood, don't move there!
Used to live on a farm loved it, then moved to live by the sea, loved it, then moved to New Zealand loved it ,then to the Blue Mountains loved it. now..well I should have stayed somewhere other than suburban Sydney however leafy. memories a plenty!!:+}
This would be a plus for me. All the fun of having livestock around without any of the responsibilities.
I hate it when people move to the country or forest from a city and then try to make it like their city.
Farms have livestock and don't exclusively "grow stuff", city dweller.
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We managed to get in touch with Eric Simon, founder of The Broke Agent, and he was kind enough to have a little chat with us.
"Just over six years ago, I started posting as The Broke Agent on Instagram, producing content that focused on the 'inner monologue' of a struggling realtor in Los Angeles. As a licensed realtor, I basically started making fun of everything that was happening to me and put it online in blog form, YouTube Videos, and short-form content like memes, tweets, and Facebook posts. It blew up really quickly and now has well over half a million followers across all platforms."
Even if we were to talk solely about its target audience, there's still room for The Broke Agent to grow as there are over 2 million active real estate agents in the U.S.
Who Needs Inspections?
We had a good example here at work. Dude owned a camping site with houses. The firefighters did a surprise inspection. Dude got fined for not having any fire alarms or smoke detectors. He then proceeds to glue smoke detectors to ceilings without connecting them to anything. The firefighters came back, opened the detectors and found his little scam. Dude got fined AGAIN and then called us to install things properly. 😂
Apparently The Description Read “Stainless Steel Appliances”
Simon started Real Estate Fails to grow The Broke Agent brand and to reach people who aren't necessarily just real estate agents but he quickly realized that it's just a really fun account to manage.
"Everyone likes looking at housing pics, especially luxury or real estate 'fails,' so it resonated with an audience outside of the real estate industry as well as real estate agents."
"Real estate agents love the account because it exposes marketing blunders, property description errors, and other mistakes agents make when uploading their marketing online. It also gives them a platform to submit all the crazy stuff they see in the field and out on showings. The account also casts a wider net on the industry, attracting contractors, appraisers, inspectors, handymen, etc."
This Might Be The Worst One Yet
Sick Flat Screen
Seen In Nebraska
According to Simon, curating the account is pretty straightforward because by now the community around it has gotten big enough for him to receive a steady stream of content.
"Most of my posts come from other realtors in my DMs, but I also get submissions in my Discord, through The Broke Agent and in our real estate Facebook pages and groups," he explained. "Like I said above, most of the photos come from agents actually spotting these crazy fails in the field on showings, inspections, or open houses. We also have a series called #ThingsWeSeeAtShowings on The Broke Agent stories."
Nah Nobody Will Notice
My Worst Nightmare
Get a doormat. If that is an important vent, get one with holes.
When Your Stager Goes A Little Nuts With House Plants
You couldn't find another person more suited to run the project. "Because I am a licensed realtor, I have developed a good eye for what is 'out of the ordinary' and what will perform well as a post," Simon said. "Also, I've been looking at and posting real estate content every day for 6 plus years so that helps with my judgment for what to post."
"The best performing content on Real Estate Fails is toilet content and anything that's sexual. If it looks like a penis or is provocative in any way, the audience goes crazy for it."
Another successful ongoing theme is staging fails where people try to cover up eye sores or contracting issues. The keyword here is 'try'.
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The F**k Is This?
The Most Insane Apartment Complex Of All Time?
Simon constantly searches for ways to engage his followers. "The best way to [do it] on these posts is to say something in the caption like 'describe this like it's in a property description.' That way, agents can put their humorous twist on a housing feature and highlight it in a positive light like a realtor would do in their marketing."
The man behind the show also highlighted that The Broke Agent has much more to offer; it's a full-on real estate media company with Podcasts (The Over Ask Podcast), blogs, YouTube videos, contributors, and more. "Our goal is to make real estate professionals laugh through the daily stress of the industry and also help improve their business with our marketing, consulting, and content platform."
Light Mold
congratulations! you just got yourself a free houseplant! or dinner, if you’re feeling lucky
The Things We See At Showings…
bad idea, good execution. at least whoever thought of this was pretty good at drawing
You Keeping This Or Updating?
Thoughts On Photoshopping A Ferrari Into Your Listing Pics?
Wtf Is This
What The Hell Is This A Pyramid?
"Beautiful Balcony Looking Over The Palatial Entertaining Area"
Look Away
Genius Listing Photo Marketing
Innovative
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Is It?
Whoops
Maybe this is the bathroom from the story a few days ago about the anti-masturbation family.
What In The Fresh Hell Is This?
Ah yes, the sideways toilet. Sometimes you make it in the bowl, sometimes you hit the TP.
“4th Bedroom”
It's a room. There's a bed in it. The car's been repossessed anyway, so what the heck
Staging In Tampa...
I faked a bed in an empty bedroom with cardboard boxes and a couple of blankets. It's pretty common when occupants have already moved.
More Of This
at least they’re being honest…? unless it does suck of course
Nothing To See Here
This is a stupid inclusion. It wasn't a real estate listing; it was the Texas freeze in February 2021, which caused catastrophic damage due to two main reasons: 1. TX houses are not built for such weather (including water pipe insulation) and 2. MOST OF THE STATE WAS DUMPED OFF THE POWER GRID SO THAT IT WOULDN'T FAIL WHICH WAS COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE IF THE TX LEADERSHIP HAD WINTERIZED THE GRID AS THEY WERE TOLD TO DO A FULL TEN YEARS BEFORE BECAUSE EXPERTS KNEW SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN EVENTUALLY.
Note: this post originally had 110 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
"Most Hectic Homes"? ..." I do not think that word means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya
Well, the Bored Panda staff is Lithuanian, so...
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I want to briefly visit the minds who made some of these disasters, just to have some chance of understand what they were thinking, if anything.
Jo, can I listen in, on your conversation, it's bound to be interesting !!!
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I've seen every single one of these photos in multiple BP lists before. BP editors, get a grip. I certainly hope no one gets paid for this sh!t.
We just sold it so I can't take pics of it...wish I had...but our last house had some...interesting design choices. They left all of the paintings in the house when we moved in, and said paintings covered up some things like a misplaced vent, a corkboard, etc. There was a fully finished basement but the previous owners obviously failed at something because the shower was in the laundry room while the toilet and sink were in the other end of the basement. Oops. To make room in one of the basement rooms to call it a bedroom they put an indent into the furnace room to create the closet. We never used the room for anything but storage but I couldn't imagine being stuck between the furnace room and the stairs. Other than that it was a gorgeous house and we seriously sold it for twice what we paid for it because of location and the design of the house. But yes, we removed the paintings, we didn't want them to have the surprises we had.
I have not laughed so much in a long time! I feel sorry for the poor agents who had to try and sell those places!
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This post, was one of the strangest, without a doubt, somewhat interesting, there must be a great number, of weird carpenters, or should I say, wanna be carpenters !!!
If I could pick some bits at the cost of a random bit being included, I would love to buy a house made of these.
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"Most Hectic Homes"? ..." I do not think that word means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya
Well, the Bored Panda staff is Lithuanian, so...
Load More Replies... I want to briefly visit the minds who made some of these disasters, just to have some chance of understand what they were thinking, if anything.
Jo, can I listen in, on your conversation, it's bound to be interesting !!!
Load More Replies... I've seen every single one of these photos in multiple BP lists before. BP editors, get a grip. I certainly hope no one gets paid for this sh!t.
We just sold it so I can't take pics of it...wish I had...but our last house had some...interesting design choices. They left all of the paintings in the house when we moved in, and said paintings covered up some things like a misplaced vent, a corkboard, etc. There was a fully finished basement but the previous owners obviously failed at something because the shower was in the laundry room while the toilet and sink were in the other end of the basement. Oops. To make room in one of the basement rooms to call it a bedroom they put an indent into the furnace room to create the closet. We never used the room for anything but storage but I couldn't imagine being stuck between the furnace room and the stairs. Other than that it was a gorgeous house and we seriously sold it for twice what we paid for it because of location and the design of the house. But yes, we removed the paintings, we didn't want them to have the surprises we had.
I have not laughed so much in a long time! I feel sorry for the poor agents who had to try and sell those places!
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This post, was one of the strangest, without a doubt, somewhat interesting, there must be a great number, of weird carpenters, or should I say, wanna be carpenters !!!
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