This Instagram Account Collects Terrible Real Estate Pics, And Here’s 40 Of The Worst Ones (New Pics)
With home values in the US soaring up to 31.2% since 2019, you naturally expect that the images in real estate listings have ameliorated. Don’t get it wrong. Nobody’s expecting the real estate agents to master the art of fine photography, nail decoration and have it all skillfully presented to their clients. But what we do look for is an absence of gag reflex at horrendous estate shots that transgress the border of decency and common sense.
Well, let me tell you, from what you are about to see, things have barely changed. The Instagram account “Terrible Real Estate Agent Photos,” aka pure nightmare material not to be consumed by your inner interior geek, still has plenty of property pics that hit rock bottom, fall beyond the ground, hit the bottom of the barrel that nobody knew was possible, and then hit the earth's core.
But hey, there’s also some charm in this whole tackiness, so get your popcorn ready, we’re about to see what disasters are on the real estate menu most of us would never be able to afford. Psst! More terrible real estate agent pics can be found in our previous posts here, here and here.
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Have you tried turning the room off and back on again?
Looks like it used to be a kid's daycare, where you can get in the front door without a stampede to the door
Spice up your morning with an unexpected trip to the ground floor.
On the plus side, it could make painting the staircase a lot easier.
This bed placement makes this living area look like utter s**t. Better keep vigorous sex below Richter 4.0 level too.
What is sex if it isn't vigorous?!!😂 Just playing around GB, lol.
Load More Replies...The banister looks to close to the wall for there to be an actual stairway there.
I agree but the whole area is obviously a DIY addon so clearly things being up to code was not a priority. If the home is old enough that may also be a legit staircase for the servant's quarters, they were tiny and originally had no railings :(
Load More Replies...“Let me know when you’re done in the bath, I’ll use that water for the pasta”
"Look I don't have enough tile for the bathroom AND the kitchen, and I'm not making another trip to the store with these gas prices! So which is it?"
Load More Replies...Looks like the second kitchen in the basement of a kosher home.
Load More Replies...When you want to cook, have a bath and mingle with guests, simultaneously.
It gets hot in adult movie star D*ck Linguine's kitchen. It gets even hotter when he takes a bath
No no! Upvote photo definitely downvote caption ewwww
Load More Replies...The Terrible Real Estate Agent Photos blog, which has gained quite a cult following in the past years, started 8 years ago. In 2013, the guy named Andy was flat scouting in London but he soon realized the listings had unique things in common. He told Bored Panda in a previous interview: “I was spending more time saving hilariously bad photographs to my desktop than booking viewings, which left me with a dilemma: What to do with the photos?”
On the other hand, Andy assured us that the level of professionalism in real estate photographs is definitely improving. “Perhaps partly due to the risk of appearing on Terrible Real Estate Photos,” he added. After all, no homeowner or landlord would like their baby, I mean real estate, to end up in this horrid collection. Which even has its own book of the worst examples!
Aunt Bessie’s next lockdown project is to knit a conservatory.
Green, orange, dark yellow and brown. Back in the 70s it was compulsory to use these colours (and purple) in home decor
Load More Replies...Man, this room has every terrible decorating trend from the '70s except for green shag carpet and macrame!
Someone, anyone, smack me in the back of the head with a shovel if I ever become this old woman.
As several others have pointed out, this is a dollhouse. It isn't a real house, and there's no old woman.
Load More Replies...If M C Escher had tried interior design.
With the steps and ladder and hidden bed it could be a wonderful kid’s hideout! Hate the grey though.
Non-Euclidian geometry at its finest - that ladder probably leads to Yog-Sothoth's dining room
So they made a permanent room in the attic, and then put a head injury sleeping loft to top it off.
The spare bedroom features a lingering stunned silence.
That is so cheesy. That is obviously a homemade heart with the heart heart cut out? Disgusting!
You call those curtains?!?! Won't keep any light out, I'll tell you that's much!
Yeah, it's the curtains that are the problem...
Load More Replies...In the current real estate crisis with properties soaring in prices that would outgrow Everest, the terrible real estate photos are relevant as ever. Are we really willing to put up with the absurdity of terrible properties sold for thousands upon thousands of dollars?
However, if you are still thinking about buying a property in this crazy post-covid market, you are likely to end up getting something that may need (or may not, depending on your budget!) a home renovation. And this is a crucial point that tests your skills, knowledge and savviness in taking every measure so that the house or flat doesn’t end up in Terrible Real Estate Photos some time in the future.
As the foliage grew in strength and numbers, the cushions made plans to reclaim the ground floor on behalf of all the soft furnishings.
When it comes to her birthday present you have one of two choices.....
Why even bother with the TV? The pillows and plants have clearly won, the TV's just a hostage now.
Deleted scene from Clash of the Titans where the Minotaur emerges from the bathroom to ask if that was the last of the toilet paper.
I know right? The rug and pillows are horrible. Get rid of those this would be a great family room.
Load More Replies...BP censor has failed us. The Minotaur isn’t wearing pants and you can clearly see the bunny’s tits.
Taken a few minutes before the conception of the dreaded Bunotaur
So nobody is gonna talk about the rabbit with the massive stiffy ?
I'm sorry, but if I needed to go to bathroom, I would def not make it to bathroom after rounding the corner and seeing that. A heart attack would probably follow.
Same here after SCERAMING at the top of my lungs.
Load More Replies...“It’s that time of the evening again, just talk amongst yourselves“
The bottle of bleach beside the toilet really makes it, in my opinion.
"The toilet? Oh, it came from Auntie Sarah's old house. We wanted something personal as a memento"
I had a dream like this once! Really had to pee but the only toilet was where everyone could see you!
What if the person there has some disability and needs the toilet in the same room
And doing that is a form of artistry in itself. So we reached out to Philippa Main, the professional realtor from Tampa Bay who went viral for her brilliant and insanely funny listing description about “the worst house on the street” some time ago. Philippa was happy to share what are some of the most common errors people make while home renovating, so that we can all learn something useful today.
“There are so many errors people make when doing home renovations that can be summed up by the idea that it is more expensive to try to do something cheaply, because it will inevitably cost you more in the long run when it has to be redone in order to make it right,” Philippa explained.
Lockdown business opportunity: Trampoline helmets.
I made our attic in an indoor playground for my son. It has an climbing frame, a swing that you can change in a climbing rope and also a trampoline (not a big one like that, because I don't want my son to have a concussion). My son has ADHD and yeah.. he needs those things to lose some energy. So now when there is a lockdown or it is just really bad weather he just can go upstairs.
Was expecting fingerprints, footprints and a few blood spatter marks on the ceiling honestly
It's a sh*tchen...
It's easy to laugh at these pics, but spare a thought for the poor sods who have to live like this
A college friend spent a month traveling Europe. Somewhere in rural Germany, she stayed in a gasthaus room that had a kitchenette. The shower was alongside the stove. To heat the water for the shower, the gas stove had to be turned on as the waterpipes ran along the wall behind. She said it was kind of fun. She could make dinner, take a shower, and lean out to stir something on the stove. She added that it was during the summer, so the water was warm from the start. She imagined in winter, those showers would be quite cold and very short.
Load More Replies...From the front door. The resident sleeps in the tub.
Load More Replies...To be honest, I would be perfectly happy with this if it was in a calm surrounding, where I don’t have to fight life and could live in silence and with a garden.
it's especially sad not to have enough space and to have to put both in the same place
“It’s important for kids to have their own space, and that cavity wall was going to waste anyway”
Aunt Petunia put some wallpaper in the cupboard under the stairs. Isn't that nice...
Seriously, what is it with grown ass women who decorate their homes as if they were 6 and trying to match it to their My Pretty Pony collection?
Load More Replies...I somehow like it - you cant fall out of the bed and it's cosy. I would just decorate it differently. Not much room for any personal stuff, though -still might be nicer for someone who wants/needs to sleep alone than sharing a room.
Claustrophobic... this would be a nightmare for me. I don't even like looking at it.
Load More Replies...Coming from a kid that didn't have her own room growing up, this would've been AWESOME!
It's a privilege to have a saperate room of your own. Nothing to complain here.
Finally, an inlaw suite that accurately reflects the family's desire to host them
imagine if these people are poor class and this is all they can afford ... my parents with their first 3 kids used to all live in one room. that is all they could afford way before I was born.
Definitely; my dad died when I was a baby, wemovedin with my Nana but at that time sharing a bed with both your children (while sharing what was technically a 3 bed house with 5 other adults, 4 of whom were lodgers) did not qualify as overcrowding. To get some peace, quiet and privacy, we moved into a single room in the next street wher we all slept on a sofabed. People do what they have to!
Load More Replies...The realtor went into more details and said that one of the biggest mistakes people make when renovating a home is hiring unlicensed professionals to do the work. “I had a client go under contract on a home recently that was in the process of having a covered patio installed. During inspections (before the covered roof was even complete) the home inspector discovered none of it was up to code and it could have potentially been a hazard in high wind situations.”
"If the 1870s had happened in the 1980s."
I doubt if even Freddie Mercury could entice Oscar Wilde into this room
Load More Replies...There is something so wrong with me because I dont hate this. Im sort of in awe at how ridiculously over the top it is.
I wouldn't want it in my house, but I kind of dig it for what it is. Someone put a lot of effort into this as well.
Load More Replies...Next on Interior Designers Gone Wilde: “Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!”
I feel like doing the Charleston while doing over the counter cocaine!
Where is the toilet paper where is the toilet paper where is the toilet paper
It's been used up to dry the tears of joy. Soo many tears, so much joy.
Load More Replies..."It would be possible to blame Accidental Selfie Syndrome were it not for the room-by-room costume changes."
Then Edgar, but it was someone wearing an Edgar suit, asked for sugar water...
hahaha yes she has Edgar suit explain face!
Load More Replies...I hope they weren't intended for a dating profile
Load More Replies...Yeah, but I’m pretty sure that the house is faking it.
Load More Replies...Philippa continued: “in order for it to pass county inspections and for the buyer to feel comfortable moving forward with buying the home, the sellers had to replace the entire structure. So they paid once for it to be done poorly, then paid to have the materials removed, and then paid for new materials and for a professional to properly install it.”
“On top of that, the unqualified person they first hired to do the job actually ruined the main roof of the home during the installation, so they had to hire a roofer to repair their roof as well,” Philippa recounted and added that “All that could have been avoided if they had hired a professional who was licensed and insured to do that kind of job from the start.”
Local man admits running illegal workshop making nightmares and panic attacks.
I like this one! Doll parts! Let's make some dolls! But my Aunt Dana was a dollmaker and my Nana was a doll collector and certified doll doctor. Meaning if you wanted 'sleeping' eyes she could put them in your ceramic doll. She could replace broken fingers and you couldn't even tell which one had been fixed, build you a new cloth body for your doll. Wigs, and tiny hand-sewn clothes from pantaloons to ball gowns! I recognized several doll heads on the table, my Nana had those dolls.
Wishing you all a deeply disappointing and poorly furnished Christmas.
I've been reading his comments on the photos for years. I think my favorite of all time was the one where the comment was, "I think it's time to mow the pool." You can only imagine the state the pool was in from that description -- and you'd be completely accurate!
Load More Replies...Nothing wrong with this room at all. I'm just trying to figure out that very long and narrow window behind those curtains.
Looks to me like a normal size window with some horrible lights outside. That might be skewing perception - though hard to say if it's yours or mine!!!
Load More Replies...I guess you could still use it as a ballroom. And there's even a side table for refreshments!
“You’re welcome, honey. I also got the Tom Selleck bath towels”
First off, that is a glorious shower curtain. Second, I think most people wouldn't look at this and say, "Gosh, love the house, but I don't care for that easily-removed, not-part-of-the-construction curtain. Guess we'll keep looking..."
I mean, where can I get one? Asking for a friend....I'm the friend.
By combining random elements of a livingroom, a utility room, a hallway, and a staircase, mankind finally created the Livingway Stairtility Room.
It sure is! I once applied for a room where the toiled was placed at the walled off bottom of a staircase. And the room of the other renters including the kitchen were all placed vertically along that staircais.
Load More Replies...Nothing on TV? Snuggle up on the couch and let the gentle thumping of the washing machine lull you to sleep
At least it's clean, dry, has heat, light, ventilation, a sofa and a washer/dryer. May people in the world would be grateful for this much.
For people who feel that watching the clothes go round and round is mesmerizing
"The painting in the hall is of Arthur’s most recent colonoscopy."
This is genuinely the worst thing I've ever seen. How do you eat your dinner in front of that?!
Traditional family dinners were important in Sandra's house - she didn't want the kids to forget where they came from
I carried you for nine months, brought you into this world, so you sure as heck are gonna eat all your broccoli.
I have no words for this one. Just, um, wow...maybe beauty of childbirth? Nope, it's not that either. Congratulations on your baby!
Childbirth is not beautiful, it's gross and painful. I'm sorry. I know I'll get downvoted. In my defence, I did it twice.
Load More Replies...How... why... the cheap office chairs and wall art make for quick meals at that table...
first it was a bedroom painting of a couple channeling the kama sutra and now it's dinner and still from giving birth to the first born.
The guest bedroom allows direct access to your troubled childhood.
Not really creepy, until you find out that the sellers are a childless couple
Creepy! Just so we're clear, that's a picture on a bolted door (I researched it). Sure, yeah, nothing weird happening here, carry on!
Bob’s ability to empty a room was renowned across the children’s entertainment industry.
Yeah, who puts a cheap clear plastic cover over a nice wooden table!?
Load More Replies...Oh, that is Harold. He would be your neighbor. Harold has been harmless. Since that incident a few years ago. No problems since he got out, and returned home, last week.
Only some weird disappearings but that's fine! No connection with him being out
Load More Replies...The owner never forgave himself for the ouija board incident. He didn't really believe John Wayne Gacy would be available
Keeping Up with the Trumps didn’t make it past the pilot episode.
Where good mannequins go when they die. You don't want to see where the bad ones go
I wonder if this person collects old Hollywood costumes from movies? That's the only thing that makes sense.
I've seen this one before, perhaps on Zillow Gone Wild. The whole house is like this, mannequins & statues everywhere!
Load More Replies...Interior design influencers are already predicting a strong year for images of dogs printed on a towel hung over the only window in a wooden room.
"She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn't a chair."
Load More Replies..."He loved the woods so much," said Bobby's owner. "I just wanted a room where I could sit and remember him"
That room is for ME! I have a beagle, he's my heart. I give this room 5 stars!!
Can't think of a better picture, than a doggie, on a towel, over a window, in a wooden room, can you?
Next time you have prunes before bed, we swap sides.
I'm going to let this one slide and go with a disability. The bed's pretty low to the floor, short dressers, and a recliner. Seems suited for a person with limited mobility. Getting tired of seeing toilets everywhere BUT the bathroom though, I must say!
What in the world is with all of these randomly placed commodes? Also hasn't anyone heard of folding screens or curtains for privacy? Commodes need to be sequestered in a tiny vented room away from everything else! I wonder if this is a room in an assisted living home or maybe a dorm room?
Or maybe just not in a privileged country? If you were used to an apartment with no bathroom (on shared on each floor), this would be a huge luxury.
Load More Replies...I mean... a lot of people live in studio apartments. This one needs some privacy curtains, but... this is real life for a lot of folks! And can you imagine what a PALACE this would seem like to a homeless person?
AT LEAST THE CARPET AND BED SPREAD ARE THE RIGHT COLOUR THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE SEEN.
The perfect beachside property in which to relive the Allied Normandy Landings of 1944.
What is that thing standing on top of the barrel or whatever in front of the window of the house next door?
You know whoever buys this place is buying strictly for the ocean side land. That's a tear-down, although it looks like if you sneezed toward it, it would just fall down.
“You go look upstairs Sandra, I’ll check out the stables”
This is not a terrible real estate pic at all! Great marketing strategy!
Dobbin inched forward cautiously and peeped through the door. God, his owners were idiots
Sorry to 98% of the users, but I just have to: "Da steht ein Pferd auf'm Flur!"
Okay, this is not the first time I've seen this. This can happen out in the country. My mother grew up on a farm, and she used to bring her horse into the house when she was a kid (or so the story goes).
Microwaves are widely regarded as the most needy of the kitchen appliances.
The time to worry is when they start using your name and asking inappropriate questions
Wow...all I get from my microwave are nasty comments about my cooking.
KILL 'EM ALL! Oh, sorry, had an X-Files flashback there: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751085/
Check for flakes and residue before making your toilet brush the focal point of the diningroom.
Looks like a dining room in a brothel ready for who knows what to happen on the dining room table
Upstairs gets pretty messy in the fall.
Until the tree grows and destroy your ceiling (sorry to break the mood)
Load More Replies...Ohhhhh the failed Eichler concept home (famous or infamous) for building homes that had as little as possible between you and the outdoors. Expensive to heat, nearly impossible to cool, a poor design in earthquake country with plate glass walls and a major fire hazard due to all the veneer walls. I’m not a fan.
The cruelty of having the CHOPPED FIREWOOD right next to it, too! 😳
Don’t bugs the let bite bed.
Are they tiles on the wall? Honestly, some people have very very strange ideas of how to decorate!
"According to the Curse of Amenhotep, he who discovers this tomb must commit to some minor rennovations before putting it back on the market."
This is actually a really awesome re-rendition of some Ancient Egyptian Art!
It's a reproduction of the real deal, not just Egyptian style!
Load More Replies...The little guy in the middle looks like he was kidnapped from an Incan temple.
Me too! There's nothing wrong with this at all! I'd definitely keep it
Load More Replies...This isn't bad though, I'd probably just keep the theme going when decorating.
That's the Journey to the Afterlife. The Pygmy god Anax is there to drag you to eternal torment.
Don’t be fooled by the bunting.
The neighbours really pulled out all the stops for Harry and Meghan's wedding
It actually looks like it could’ve been from Charles and Diana’s wedding!
Load More Replies...100% this is a reposession. I've looked around repo properties where the previous owners have basically said "f you" to the bank and put holes through walls and ripped doors off hinges.
Misery is having to read someone else’s definition of happiness while trying to unblock a U-bend
I do love that tub though! Growing up I lived in two separate houses with cast iron claw foot tubs and there's no better tub for soaking. They hold the heat so much longer.
Load More Replies...There's a special place in hell for people who deface their walls with trite comments in curly fonts
When looking for a house my husband and I saw one that had writing in each room. In the kitchen was "Cook", in the dining room "Eat" and the bed room "Dream". Was disappointed when we entered the bathroom and it didn't say "S**t". We had no idea what to do in there without instructions.
On the bright side, this can be easily painted out, unlike many of the other atrocities on this list.
This is Feng Shui for “we haven’t had a visitor since 2007″.
No it's not! It was 5 years ago and i refuse to believe anything else
Load More Replies...I know a family who did this, front door opens out onto a main road pretty much. So they blocked the front door in, and made the back door the main entrance instead. Added a porch over the back garden patio. Works much better for them
Some friends of mine did similar - they don't use the front door so just blocked the access. It is still there, just in case when they sell the new owners feel differently. It goes on to a small front garden but when they go in and out they park near the back door so it makes sense to make that the main entrance.
Load More Replies...Like their bad marriage, Peg and Dave realized there was no way out of the living room.
Not sure what is supposed to be so bad about this room? It's just plain. With a bit of color, some nice drapes, and maybe rearranging the furniture it would be fine.
Remove a lot of the big furniture and window dressings and it wouldn’t be too bad.
Stan began to wonder how often the other chairs had been meeting like this without him.
The years of practise paying off for Jeff here, as he executes a flawless accidental selfie from a different room.
Jeff refused to compromise his masculinity by actually setting foot in a pink room
Looks like someone vomited Pepto Bismol all over that room 🤔
Load More Replies...On the 5th day, God gave his preliminary sketches to the couple next door as an apology for all the noise.
This one was NOT terrible! It was a local house here in Pittsburgh and it had: The 2 story galactic mural A kitchen with a hatch door leading to an adjoining room and HAL 9000 fridge A room with real, working helicopter controls and space style furnishings all over A basement painted to look like a beach with a small adjoining boom boom room It was on Zillow but I can't seem to find it again 😭 But this house was cool AF and if they showed ANY other pictures from the listing, it wouldn't have been anywhere near this article.
Periods are our friends. Come. Join us. Embrace the period.
Load More Replies...No. Unless you want him to wake up (and you don't want him to wake up).
Load More Replies...Found a walk-through video tour by the owner's granddaughter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DNK3cOs1Y0) via an interesting article on the house itself (https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/quirky-home-for-sale-comes-with-a-spaceship-and-a-beach-inside-1.4944934) 'cause it was a bit 'o fun, enjoy.
Zach’s new garden saved him a fortune in hay fever medicine.
Could be the coast, where I have seen this quite often. They use it as a terrace.
I looked this one up at the time - it is very near the beach and sand dunes.
Load More Replies...Zach is currently under investigation after it was discovered that six members of his family had disappeared under suspicious circumstances
They are still wondering where they could be....
Load More Replies...Some planter boxes a water features and some outdoor furniture and this would make a lovely terrace!!!!
My kind of yard. Add some nice outdoor furniture, patio umbrella, potted plants and it will be perfect.
If the truck and cars are on the highway, I wouldn't be hanging out in my garden very much. Can you imagine the noise and diesel smell?
Hands up if you absolutely refuse to be hurried when you’re on the toilet.
"We asked for a photo of Grandpa holding today's newspaper, but I suppose this proves he's still alive"
He disguised his phone behind the GIGANTIC a soap dispenser!
Gramps still wonders who that friendly gentleman was using the bathroom across from him.
In this version, the Princess pricks her finger, orders some bleach, packs her books, and moves out.
why does the paint color switch from grey to neon green halfway through the room ?!?
The shared courtyard is available for an hour a day, provided you can reach an agreement with the other inmates.
Actually they could clean that wall and then paint it in nicer colours ;)
But they didn't, so now it looks like a prison courtyard.
Load More Replies...Prison authorities have confirmed that after a "heated argument" the Unabomber chose 2-3pm, with the Shoe Bomber opting for the 3-4pm slot
“We can talk about how I got up here when you find me a way back down”
High art.
Alternatively, just hang the picture above the lamp...nah, too easy
Trying to draw your eyes away from the fact that there's no handle on the door and you're now imprisoned against your will.
Shhh, I know there's something that blends in with the door, it just doesn't really look like a handle.
Load More Replies...Hoping it won't drop on someone's head if the door is slammed too hard!
Evenings were the worst for Trevor, who only got to see the rest of the suite on weekends.
Property’s integrated security system provides peace of mind, lack of access and a trip hazard.
That will only keep out honest people, a burglar is just going to break the window.
I can really see ourselves here honey. This can be the corner I cry in when I’m ruining your parties.
“If the show sucks we can always leave during the interval“
Please make your way to the upper deck where you will be assigned a lifeboa
I can't really tell, is the vanity top broken/uneven? The angle has me off.
Property features some excellent outdoor space for entertaining.
by the angle of that driveway as soon as the snow starts to melt there's going to be a flooding issue
Load More Replies...By combining random elements of a livingroom, a utility room, a hallway, and a staircase, mankind finally created the Livingway Stairtility Room.
Some of the funniest captions I've read on here, have they got a new member of staff on bored panda?
Captions are from the original post. Click the link "terriblerealestateagentphotos" under the photos.
Load More Replies...They should have included some of the "garden chair of solitude" entries from the OP. Those are some of the best ones
I see someone found some of my former apartments and living spaces.
The privileged, judgemental comments on these real estate posts are just overwhelming.
Please explain how your comment is not privileged and judgmental?
Load More Replies...Some of the funniest captions I've read on here, have they got a new member of staff on bored panda?
Captions are from the original post. Click the link "terriblerealestateagentphotos" under the photos.
Load More Replies...They should have included some of the "garden chair of solitude" entries from the OP. Those are some of the best ones
I see someone found some of my former apartments and living spaces.
The privileged, judgemental comments on these real estate posts are just overwhelming.
Please explain how your comment is not privileged and judgmental?
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