Posted on 12/15/2021 2:42:00 PM PST by Trillian
Spare a thought for the homebuyers searching for their dream property... only to stumble upon these nightmare houses.
The houses from around the world, all listed to buy online, have been collated by US Instagram account Bad Real Estate Pics - and later shared in a Bored Panda gallery.
One picture shows a cascade of ice in a kitchen that had been photographed after a pipe burst in the ceiling.
Potential buyers also revealed they spotted a mysterious cupboard with numbers scored on the inside of the door, as if someone had been trapped in their for days.
And another called an apartment complex with indoor balconies the 'most insane of all time.'
Here, FEMAIL shares some of the strangest examples...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Imagine coming home to that drunk?
I had a bed made from beer cases, a 4x8 sheet of plywood, and a futon when I first got out of college.
Gotta start somewhere
I made a coffee table from packing boxes, duct taped together. Not so strange for a first apartment, but I kept it for twelve years. It was a great conversation starter.
No, I was not married. Why do you ask?
Within a couple of years I had a fairly complete and nicely furnished one bedroom apartment. The thieves that broke in one weekend while I was away apparently thought so too. They took the usual TV, microwave, stereo (this was the 80s). A Kodak disc camera, remember those?
It’s amazing the vibes that you can pick up from a lived in house. When people “make it their own” it really shines through, for better or worse. Definitely why realty agents have a standard presentation code when selling a house, at least the ones who aren’t starving.
TikToker Demi Skipper, who started the “Trade Me Project” with a bobby pin in May 2020, traded 27 items until she secured a house in Clarksville, Tenn., on Nov. 26. ... She secured the $80,000 two-bedroom house after 18 months of trades that started with a lone bobby pin.8 hours ago
A TikToker with a bobby pin made 28 trades for a house. Now ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/15/tiktok-bobby-pin-trade-me-project-house/
Hell, at least you had a bed… I just had plywood… uphill, both ways…
Oh, we used to dream of having plywood! We used to sleep on a ragged sheet of cardboard, with a saran-wrap blanket...
Fixer-uppers.
Saran Wrap blanket??? Damn you were rich!!!
I had to use wax paper… kept sliding off the plywood all night!!!!
After we had to pawn the Saran Wrap, we used old gum wrappers sewed together with discarded dental floss.
I sleep on plywood now. It is nicely polyurethaned plywood. I built a bed frame for it and because the sleeping board is so thin it is raised up enough to give me a lot of storage room beneath. I don’t like normal mattresses. I do have a self-inflating mattress that is about 1 1/2 inches thick on it. I sleep much better than I ever did on a standard mattress.
Someone could make a museum out of this stuff.
Stick it right smack dab in the middle of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
I made a bed 35 years ago from 3/4” plywood with 2x4 supports and 4x4 legs, plus a giveaway mattress. I slept on it for quite a few years, but now it’s a low worktable in the garage.
How about sitting there and getting the bedspins🤭
I used to live in a shoebox in the middle of the road.
And we were lucky. I knew a guy who lived in a paper bag in a septic tank.
(Jokes stolen from MPFC)
Yeah, that was who I had in mind. The Monty Python lads as the Four Yorkshiremen.
Most comfortable chair I ever had was a cardboard box with a few pillows in it.
Standard mattresses with springs — I could never.
Memory foam — too hot.
Latex — the real deal...ahhhhh.
Latex isn’t cheap; prepare to spend over $1k. But worth it unless for some reason you NEED to sleep on a board. :(
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