Yowzas!

This month’s edition of MLS Musings will leave you shaking your head.  “You mean…..people get paid for this?”

After reading the following captions on MLS, try and determine if there a greater need for:

a) spell-check
b) a thesaurus
c) common sense
d) the grammar police
e) all of the above

1) Define “Commute”

You and I think about commuting, and we think about maybe driving from Ajax to Toronto each morning, or maybe taking the Go Train from Oakville.

Apparently to other people, “commuting” means something different.

This waterfront condo is advocating getting a job in another city, or even another COUNTRY, and living near the island airport to make the commute a bit easier:

2) A hazy fog, or a foggy haze?

Something tells me that the photographer who took photos of the house below was sitting in a hot and moist car before these photos were taken.

Or maybe a sauna?  Is that common?  For a photographer to take his or her Canon Rebel T3 into the steam room at Goodlife?

Whatever the case, how the heck did these photos make it to MLS without somebody noticing?

3) Define “Effort”

You know I just LOVE these ones!

Just like last time, when somebody wrote, “4th bedroom easily converts to master ensuite bathroom,” we have somebody here advocating an even easier transition.

This house was listed for sale at $1.3M, and they felt it prudent to include the following caption.

Man, if only “little effort” could translate into that kind of dough…

4) Price Change?

This is either:

1) The most expensive property to ever be listed for sale in the city of Toronto, and quite possibly, the world.

2) The biggest typo in the history of organized real estate.

You decide…

5) Define “Envy”

Is this really going to work?

Is this really how some people buy real estate?  By feeling like they’re better than other people?

Pardon my French, but none of my friends could give a flying F# if I lived in “An upscale building in south Forest Hill.”

A 1-bed condo?  Tell that to my friends who own 5-bedroom houses.  Then we’ll talk about envy….

6) Parking?

This has to be the most expensive parking space ever listed for sale on Toronto MLS.

I know that Trump Towers charges a whopping $450/month to rent a space, but this takes things to a whole other level.

It’s also nice to know that this parking space has 3-beds, 3-baths, and is spread over 3-storeys.

And what’s with the property management company?

WHO CREATED THIS LISTING!?!?!

7) Define “Sexy Laundry”

Personally, when I think about “sexy laundry,” I picture something that might be purchased on Valentine’s Day, or something that might be purchased at a Stagette party…

Then again, it could be something like this:

(and yes, I used a photo of a dude instead of a lady so I wouldn’t be accused of being a pig…)

But sexy six-packs aside, what do you think the listing agent meant when he or she wrote the following:

8) Nobody’s Prefecft!

They say that making fun of spelling mistakes is the lowest form of Internet warfare.

But personally, I think that if you’re being paid a 5% commission to sell real estate, you simply have no excuse.

You also shouldn’t make three spelling mistakes in the same word, but then again, nobody’s prefecft…

Ah well.

I think we all know what htey maent….

🙂

Have a great weekend, everybody!