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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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Not only do you get to spend half a million dollars on buying it, you'll have to figure out how and where to move a ridiculously large house. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/35-Stonehouse-Dr-Princeton-NJ-08540/39013680_zpid/

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[–] TerryCustard 78 points 1 year ago

“They just do not build houses like this anymore” which is a shame, because you will have to try

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Who will pay me $500k to demolish my house? "

[–] Gregorech@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It might be cheaper to hire an architect to walk it and sketch out a new set of blueprints, rebuild it somewhere else.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If they were giving the house away it might make sense, but ya this is insane.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago

The estimated price graph plunge is pretty hilarious though.

[–] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t just casually mention that the whole house has to be moved to another location and not even say why.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume a rich asshole bought it, assuming he could demolish it, found out it is protected, and is now trying to pass the relocation costs on to some other rich asshole. I don't even see how this place can be moved though, it looks like masonry on a slab.

[–] Emperor 26 points 1 year ago

It's rich assholes all the way down.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Relocating concrete floor buildings has been done before, but it's certainly not easy, and probably not cost effective.

[–] Moyer1666@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

I've never seen something so ridiculous lol

[–] celeste@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's some speculation in the comments on this site that the American Battlefield Trust purchased it as part of an effort to preserve a historic battlefield location in Princeton. So they don't want to be destroying other historic stuff, I guess?

[–] paper_clip@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I love this bit from the description:

While currently located within the Princeton Public School district, the municipality where the house is moved will determine where students will attend public schools.

As if some people may assume the school zoning would follow the physical house where ever it gets relocated. It's one of those lines that gets added to the description because someone asked that question in the past.

[–] klemptor@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At first I was thinking this is a great price for a historically important home in Princeton, and you can actually get land pretty cheap a little bit north in Hunterdon County, but jeez, what would it cost to relocate and update that house?!

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I think there's a good chance that with proper structural bracing an Apache helicopter could be used to haul chunks of it to its new location yeah but you're looking at maybe a quarter million dollars, maybe a little less if you own the construction company that's moving it.

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You would need fuck you money to afford to buy the house and move it.

I bet the whole project would be over a million. Your also have to buy land and prep it as well.

[–] Mr_Blott 10 points 1 year ago

It looks like the entrance to a public swimming pool 🤢

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sure, I'll just hook it up to the trailer hitch.

[–] Hossenfeffer 3 points 1 year ago

Just DHL it.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Lmao, literally, why?