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
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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It's finished concrete. Look to the right side of the fireplace... It's shiny and reflective
Load More Replies...The evil mastermind starter pack. Sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, swivel chair and hairless cat sold separately.
Correction: "Sharks with laser beams attached to their "frikken" heads." Gotta be the frikkin variety rather than just ordinary sharķ heads
Load More Replies...A bathroom with a fireplace and other rooms connected like that? I thought it looked more like some looney decided installing the tub in the living room made sense.
Load More Replies...I'm more upset at the colour combination and at the bath being in the middle of the way, that at the fact that there's a bathtub in a large room with a fire place, surrounded by an ugly AF carpet. But, now that I saw the latter, I hate it all.
I think it is mold, not a carpet at all.
Load More Replies...Everything about this picture screams 'you are going to get Syphilis here.'
Option 1: Ahhh, you can trip into your tub and then fall into bed, proceeding to get both the carpet and the bed wet or option 2 is: Who was the a$$hole who carpeted the realllllllllllly llllaaarrrggggggeeee bathroom? Option 3: Don’t want children? Leave this tub full of water and wait for 10 minutes with the door open to the rest of the house and any thing that can, will fall in and drown. Option 4: OSHA insist you install a safety rail around that…
No. Just NO. Imagine walking in here when its pitch black when you move in and DONT have the layout memorized yet
There is a brand new house in our neighborhood, built 2020. They lived there 5 months before they left to go back to the city...she purchased a huge copper bath tub that was too big for the upstairs bath...so where to they install it... in the loft right Over the kitchen stove. Kinda weird...it also made the house hard tough to sell.
Rock with it, but put some tile around the tub & change the carpet color
Wouldn't mind a hot tub in the bedroom, but not one I would easily trip and fall un.
Are you kidding?? This is my dream - a bathtub in every room?! Hell yeah!
this hurts my brain....from the literal elementary school door to the BATH IN THE FLOOR WHICH IS IN THE LIVING ROOM TO THE CARPET BUT NOT JUST ANY CARPET ITS GREEN CARPET....WHO...HAS....GREEN....CARPET ANYMORE AHHHH and oh my god....the only thing that's modest IS THE FIREPLACE WHICH DOESNT MAKE SENSE HJVHJVFVJV
I think they put the tub there to distract you from the photoshopped fireplace and the black mold around the AC vent.
I'd love a matter bedroom with a fireplace, sunken spa bathtub, & bathroom, even if it has ugly, stained carpet & a gas wall heater!
I feel like that tub needs a clear plastic snap on lid. Don't know why but not everything needs a reason.
Do you wish you had more trip & fall accidents in your home? Look no further!
Living room / bathroom for guest entertainment. Water closit (toilet) has poop privacy. Otherwise just disrobe and make yourself at home.
I saw a house like this in my neighborhood too! It had hardwood floors, a jacuzzi in the livingroom and in the bedroom but not in the bathroom!
When you choose the wrong Y coordinate for the /setblock command in minecraft
Interesting variation on the claw foot tub in the kitchen of a small NYC apartment.
imagine having family visiting and your mom tells you to take a bath.. "Um, where?" *mom points to bathtub* "Dude I can't just strip down in front of family! (privacy reasons?)" "oh no problem sweetie, just go to the bathroom and splash water on yourself from the sink. the sink doesn't have hot water, don't worry." *legitimately in the middle of winter*
What? No ladder to get in or out? Oh, wait! Theres a fireplace to get warm after your sunken bath!
Okay the thing that's actually annoying me the most is that it's carpet. I'm imagining the bath works otherwise why would it be there. I'm not sure but there's no way if that bath works that that carpet is not going to get wet and probably get mold underneath it and yea no thank you.
Minimalist retro 70' with wall heater and a sunken almost flush pink bathtub. Comes with the green lawn carpet ...Move in ready hahaha
Kinda loving this ..ain't gonna lie....was a former house of "Swingers"?
I always wanted a bathroom with a fire place, but I think I'd have to pass on this one.
Everyone's number one question: what is with the 4 foot air return beside the fireplace.
I always wanted a bathroom with a big tub and a fireplace, but this isn't quite what I had in mind.
The sunken LR bathtub, unusual that it is, isn't properly aligned with the wall, and that's put me on edge. And why is the floor mottled and ugly?
Personal, yeah, but not for everyone. Singles looking toward erogenous get-togethers?
Nothing wrong with wanting a jacuzzi tub in your actual master bedroom!
Guess they wanted a hot tub in living room , must have been swingers.lol
For starters a bathtub is not a hot tub .. and second.. Actually that's it. No need for the obvious.
Not gonna lie, my first thought was jealousy over a soaking tub, lol. I'd rip out all the carpet and lay waterproof vinyl flooring myself for a tub deep enough to cover my legs. We've got the shallowest tub.
This is the special room for grown-ups that your neighbors got to visit sometimes.
Guess it's a former p0rn studio. Maybe an only fans chick will buy it as a business investment.
"Oh look honey. We can have a romantic bath together by the fireside, while watching Nicholas Sparks romance movies. Without it, this house wouldn't be perfect!"
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.
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"Most Hectic Homes"? ..." I do not think that word means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya
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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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"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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