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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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
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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."
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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
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Thoughts On Photoshopping A Ferrari Into Your Listing Pics?
Wtf Is This
What The Hell Is This A Pyramid?
Ancient Aztec temple. No knives required; all sacrifices break their neck coming out the door.
When your brother-in-law is a bricklayer who offers to do the job "real cheap"
I'd appreciate knowing the logic behind this. I mean, it could've been built directly beneath the door, at least. Someone had too much time on their hands.
You can't just build that in a day unless you have lots of help... How many idiots got together and made that while thinking, "this makes sense." ?!?
A bunch of men. They are notorious for idiotic design. My mother's kitchen was designer in such a way that you had to open the fridge to open the oven
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there's this one house close to where I live that doesn't have stairs leading up to the door, but the door's set like three-four feet up. I always pass it and think that they're going to build one, but they never do
How you suppose they get in? Do they use a ladder?
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i would not be surprised if there was a sign saying 'handicap accessible'
LMAO and it doesn't meet the door after all that work and those many many bricks.
I guess it was asking to much to line up that pile of bricks!
This house is in the neighborhood I grew up I n. Still looks the same! I m 46 and I've never seen that door opened. I assume they used the alternate entrance. Amazing it was left like that for so long tho.
Imagine the poor guys from the moving company having to schlepp all the stuff in or out of the house.
Discourages Jehova's Witnesses, and can be used for Aztec-style human sacrifice displays on Halloween. Decorate with red and green lights for Christmas.
You see steps like this in neighbourhoods with lots of Jehova's witnesses. Does a good job of discouraging them.
She said "Kevin...I said I would like a bigger fruit cellar " So yeah think he heard me. Sigh 😕
A blind bricklayer did this then when he heard he wasn't get paid they said f**k it
Go rent trash container & mini Ex. Buy a bunch of wood, build real stairs & patio and start over. Great attempt though... Lol... Not really
It's a language problem, with a lack of contractor's common sense, or perhaps the contractor felt insulted. The fascia brickwork gave it away: "Replace the old offset wooden porch with this brick design. Center it." Or this might be the classic dimensional error in blueprint reading: Left end of porch footing 3 ft from left foundation corner, genius measured 3 yd instead.
They should add a little draw bridge from the pyramid to the door for extra ambience!
I've seen something like this in my neighborhood! It's like they didn't realize how high of the ground their door is and then got drunk figuring out how to make steps!
Someone played the Sims 4 wrong. Can we hit the delete button and try again maybe?
You guys are missing the obvious answer. The house has slid down the hill since the stairs were built.
Jumping gracefully to your left to get in won't work unless someone is there to open the door first.
imagine breaking your leg, getting crutches, and then having to go home through tHIS
Optical illusion is my guess. The stairs go to a flat area you can't see bc of the angle
Imagine carrying groceries up that mountain while trying to fish out your keys. 😬☠ Not to mention the fact that you'd have to do some yoga moves with said groceries just to successfully make it into your house once you reach the top of Mount Everest over there. The ridiculous "stairs" are bad enough, but you also don't align your door with your lil creation. I hope you were drunk dude. 🥴
Construction worker yells out: “Oh boss! I think we put the single window and the door in the wrong places! Or maybe the steps are in the wrong place? Now what?” Boss: “Shut up stupid it looks fine. Go to lunch or something.”
“There HAS been a couple, Zuul and Vinz Clortho, that are REALLY interested, so if you like it we should get your offer in right away.”
"We'll just get them to build it to our slightly askew door" ... probably should've checked that could be done beforehand.
All that waisted energy laying all those bricks 🧱 if only they had the sense to just build a square below the door 🚪 nice brick work though 😂
I hope whoever did the planning for that tiered brick platform was fired.
Hahaha... I can imagine this, "What do you mean we need to move the door?"
Is this some clown's idea of front steps? Would've worked had it lined up with the door instead of the window.
That makes it easier for the teenagers to climb out the window at night.
I’m imagining how to get a load of groceries through there!
Vera liked the new house so much, she hardly ever went out. Mind you, it was difficult with a broken leg.
Wherever this is. I couldn't help but imagine carrying in groceries with that pyramid full of ice and snow! 😳
Sad. Find the person who made this house. *slappppp! Did you not see the stairs?
After finishing this they were so proud and they just stood and admired it, probably took lots of pictures shared them with their friends
if the front door was moved over a little bit it would look great with them stairs but this i don't know
The Aztecs gods don't care where your door is!! THEY JUST WANT THEIR TRIBUTE!
I see what they were going for and I salute their effort. No, I would not buy one like that.
Jump to the left, then put your hands on you hips. Let's do the time warp again!
Hey look! If you open up the door, you will fall into the creepy sand pit scene with the creepy lizard snake from the movie Beatle Juice😳
Stairway to. where? Using up those spare bricks you nicked from the building site?
It seems like it could have looked good and been better in terms of achieving the goal, but just wasn't planned right.
We lived next door to a woman who had a pyramid in her basement that she put her son in when he was sick or injured!?!?
In all likelihood the customer made a last minute change to the layout, before construction but AFTER the foundation had been done, without thinking (or caring) about the consequences... and didn't want to pay for redoing the stairway. I imagine the door and single window positions were swapped... likely at an SO's insistence. Typically, most homes have the front door next to a larger window(s).
An earthquake moved the house? A mudslide did it? It's just weird angles... well, if those 'stairs' where made of empty beer cans it would make more sense.
"Beautiful Balcony Looking Over The Palatial Entertaining Area"
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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.
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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...
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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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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 !!!
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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