They'll Be None The Wiser
Ahh, nothing livens up a listing like a few bouquets of .50 Browning machine gun cartridges. Don’t forget to stop and smell the primer…
Found By: Eric J
Loveliest comment, by Michael: I think I know this level. If you run up to the door to get the health, a giant red Cacodemon comes out from the back of the balcony.
No-one will know this was copy and pasted.No-one will know this was copy and pasted.
You mean it’s NOT real?
Makes me feel that the house is just a ply frontage and they’re going to come along and film a western any day now.
I think the entire house was cut an pasted onto a photo of a wooded lot. I just get that feeling. Can’t put my finger on the cause. Maybe it’s the sun and shadows not quite matching up.
The sign was definitely added – the base of it should be picking up the tree shadow.
Tacky “landscaping” but I couldn’t buy a shack next to the dump in my town for $134,000
Do you get the feeling the sign is fake too?
I’ve got to figure that at least one of these “bouquets” is covering something really scary.
It would have to be really, really scary! I think a hole in the house would scare me less than those “bouquets” do! They’re just… hideous.
OK, really, WHAT could be so bad that this is an improvement? Blood stains? Dead kittens? Swastikas? Seriously…
Even chair near the front door looks one-dimensional, like it’s painted on the wall.
*waves hand in front of prospective buyer’s face* “These are not the bushes you’re looking for…”
Wouldnt the people notice its different when they get there.
What is the circular yellow thing at the bottom left? Is it the barrel-sight of some weapon? I think I know this level. If you run up to the door to get the health, a giant red Cacodemon comes out from the back of the balcony.
And in the background the Cyberdemon is cheering him on!
Surely this is illegal. Maybe not, since presumably a buyer-to-be would see the house in person before he or she purchased it, but photo-shopping stuff into photos of something you’re trying to sell? Tacky at best.
“The accuracy of all information, regardless of source, is not guaranteed or warranted. All information should be independently ” (I didn’t cut the quote off in the middle of the sentence, the website disclaimer ends mid-sentence)
So someone across the street has a “house for sale” sign out front, the kind you get at a hardware store, not even “for sale by owner”. And we agreed that the Realtor we used makes a nice living, but he sure does earn it (the Realtor has also sold and bought many properties for other members of the family). Then I found myself thinking “yeah but the Realtors that just put the lock box combination in the ad, they sure as heck don’t deserve a percentage”. Nor does this Realtor. Photoshopping, and the photos are very low quality because they are put in a flash viewer that takes too much dataspace to the pictures have to be low quality to load fast enough, and he/she can’t even proof the footer on their own page. Clearly no attention to detail and is more interested in appearances than anything important -not a good combo.
Actually, the word “verified.” at the end of the disclaimer is there. They just have an extra-large line space and placed it waaaaay over to the left.
Still, you’d think they could at least find some cut-and-paste shrubs that look like shrubs and not failed origami experiments.
Definitely something fishy there. That price is quite low for a house that size in that area, even in today’s market.
WTF????
The agent must have read the REALTOR magazine article about “Virtual Staging” and decided to try their hand at it. Even good virtual staging has a disclaimer stating that the photo is an artist’s rendering. Highjinks like this is what gives REALTORS a bad name!
“Sweetheart! Go clean up your cartlage’s now! The Smiths will be over in 1 hour!”
It’s zombie house (http://lovelylisting.com/2009/10/i-have-an-odd-sense-of-foreboding.html) in the daylight!! Those fake flowers added $5K to the asking price.
its an edit. look at the bushes, fail.
Interestingly, that section of the street was under repair when Google was driving around and therefore was not included in Google Street View. You can get a distant view of the house but not a view that comes close to matching the listing.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=safari&q=326+Pennell+St,+Northville,+MI&ie=UTF8&gl=us&ei=lNz2SvunFIiC8QbrptXzCQ&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA&hq=&hnear=326+Pennell+St,+Northville,+Wayne,+Michigan+48167&ll=42.434124,-83.477058&spn=0.001817,0.002714&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=42.434542,-83.477267&panoid=DT6e0xxbpS9MvkHXIiX4KQ&cbp=12,156.61,,2,-1.32
This looks shopped.