By The Tim on January 12, 2011
Once again, I decided to head out to some weekend open houses to get a first-hand look at some of what’s on the market. And, once again, as I pumped up everyone’s favorite “open house traffic” statistic, I often found myself wondering: What were they thinking? When I say “they” I’m referring to both the [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged photos, real-actual-home-staging, sellers, staging
By The Tim on December 30, 2010
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged bad-photos, condos, detrimental-listing-photos, photos, real-actual-listing-photos
By The Tim on December 2, 2010
The delightfully well-done video below doesn’t have anything to do with Seattle real estate specifically, but given that the Jonathan Coulton song (one of my favorites) is an amusing commentary on sprawling suburban life and American consumerism, it’s at least tangentially related. Enjoy. Credit goes to Jonathan Coulton for the music and Jarrett Heather for [...]
Posted in Audio & Video, Humor | Tagged commentary, music, random, suburbs, video
By The Tim on November 22, 2010
Last week on the Twitter feed I linked to a post that my friend Lennox Scott put up on his blog titled First Time Buyers Are Key To Housing Market Recovery. Here’s a brief excerpt: In my travels around the country everyone wants to know what I think it will take to get the housing [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged JohnLScott, pyramid-scheme, Scott
By The Tim on November 17, 2010
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged bad-photos, condos, detrimental-listing-photos, Kendra-Todd, photos, real-actual-listing-photos
By The Tim on October 18, 2010
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged bad-photos, condos, Czech-Sky, detrimental-listing-photos, photos, real-actual-listing-photos
Slick Video Commentary on Suburbia
By The Tim on December 2, 2010 | 36 Comments
The delightfully well-done video below doesn’t have anything to do with Seattle real estate specifically, but given that the Jonathan Coulton song (one of my favorites) is an amusing commentary on sprawling suburban life and American consumerism, it’s at least tangentially related. Enjoy. Credit goes to Jonathan Coulton for the music and Jarrett Heather for [...]
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Posted in Audio & Video, Humor | Tagged commentary, music, random, suburbs, video | 36 Comments