Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Real Estate 101



So, I spent one day this weekend doing the real estate hunt thing. As usual, the hunt went something like, go to umpteenzillion houses and try to keep them straight somehow-someway. I tend to do that by taking my own pictures of the house as the pictures on the listing somehow, nearly without fail, just SUCK (Don't believe me? http://lovelylisting.com). Not that mine are really great pictures, but if I take enough of them, I can remember the floorplan and the size of the rooms.

Today, I get a call from my real estate agent sounding all sheepish. I'm trying to figure out what is going on and then he tells me that one of the houses we saw didn't want pictures taken of their house and asked they be deleted! They were there when we were with the dog out back, so umm, wtf didn't they say something then? And who won't let you take pictures of the house they are trying to sell?!

People are nuts.