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MLS Musings!

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September 25, 2020

MLS Musings is the gift that keeps on giving.

It will never stop.  Ever.

While the day may come, approaching 3,000 blog posts, that I run out of ideas, I will certainly never run out of ridiculous MLS content to post on this blog for a fun-Friday.

Case in point…

We used to have room for twenty photos on each MLS listing.

Now we have room for forty.

But what in the world is this about:

That’s a screen-shot of a map of downtown with 295 Adelaide Street West circled in red.

I might not be totally caught up on current events, but did Google go out of business?

Why did the listing agent for this condo feel the need to map the location of this building, in a photo?

What’s worse:

1) Having to climb over your dinner mates to get to your seat at this tiny table shoved into a nook
2) Having to listen to your dinner-mates go to the bathroom from 3 1/2 feet away

Nothing quite says “buy me” like a house for sale, photographed with the junk-removal van parked at the back door:

They couldn’t have waited one day to take this “feature” photo?

Whose legs are those?

Didn’t see them?  Keep looking…

I’m actually dizzy from looking at this…

…but also from wondering why the decision-makers thought this photo would look good on the listing.

“Umm, David, it’s called marketing!  Geez, get with it!”

Yeah, just getting out ahead of that one.

But seriously, I don’t understand photos of objects on MLS.

In a related story, I don’t understand photos of objects on MLS…

I also don’t understand staging unfinished basements…

In a related story, I don’t understand staging unfinished basements…

But also, while we’re at it, I don’t understand staging unfinished basements…

The chalk on those dumbells looks fresh:

Maybe the photographer was doing some kettle-bell raises to warm up for the shoot?

Or maybe these sellers have no concept of “de-cluttering?”

Then again, what’s a few chalked-up dumbells when other folks have no problem displaying a 9-foot-tall portrait of themselves in the living room as the MLS feature photo:

“Umm, David, it’s called style!  Geez, get with it!”

Sorry, I was just getting out ahead of that one too…

“Umm, David, it’s called contrast!  Geez, get with it!”

Is it just me, or is 30% of this house missing?

And last but not least, I’m looking for something a little more comfortable to wear to the office this winter, and double as stunt-clothing for when I’m filming fight scenes.

If anybody wants in on this order, let me know…

 

 

 

Written By David Fleming

David Fleming is the author of Toronto Realty Blog, founded in 2007. He combined his passion for writing and real estate to create a space for honest information and two-way communication in a complex and dynamic market. David is a licensed Broker and the Broker of Record for Bosley – Toronto Realty Group

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10 Comments

  1. Ed

    at 9:12 am

    Those unfinished basements painted in white sort of have a loft feel.
    A loft with low ceilings that is.

    1. Izzy Bedibida

      at 11:05 am

      I agree. The staging looks quite nice

  2. Izzy Bedibida

    at 11:06 am

    I would love to know how the condo dining nook was advertised.

    1. Libertarian

      at 1:48 pm

      Probably as the dining room. In the same way David did that video years ago talking about how a shelf was called a den. Every room in a condo is being upsized – what used to be a shelf is the den, the den is now a dining room, or a spare bedroom even though a bed doesn’t fit in it.

      Is that virtual staging? Why is the bathroom door so wide?

      Nothing about that photo makes sense.

      1. Steve

        at 7:28 pm

        I also couldn’t get my head around the toilet and whether the bowl was the wrong way or the aspect of the “photo” is completely messed up making it looks like it’s a two seater.

  3. Appraiser

    at 8:42 am

    Most keen observers seem to agree that there has been a delayed spring real estate market. Hard to argue.

    Granted, the remarkable sales and price surge we are currently experiencing across the nation has been an elongated one. Most likely due to pent-up demand. So say the experts. A long spring indeed.

    Lots of bear chatter lately about an apparent market slow down, or ‘this-torrid-pace-cannot-be-sustained’ lingo.

    Question for the bears. When was the last time the spring market lasted for 12 months of the year?

    Follow up question – does decreased price growth constitute a crash?

    Some perma-bears (Rabidoux, for one) are doing the old 6 month fear peg. You know, the one where you say sure things are cool now, but “wait till next spring”

    I call it fear-pegging. The idea is to move the doomsday peg into the future. Somewhere. Anywhere. Basically fear-pegging provides cover for poor analysis and lousy predictions. It also imparts much-needed solace to fellow perma-bears who struggle to keep the faith.

    Full-time huckster Garth Turner used to fear-peg every week for at least ten years. “this will not end well” was his mantra. Probably still is.

    Don’t get me started on Evan Siddall’s latest backtracking, let’s move the goal posts market crash prediction garble, or his laughable “Moody’s agrees with me, so there” attitude.

    Armageddon’s coming, you’ll see! (Just not right now).

    1. Chris

      at 9:15 am

      Incoherent.

      You’re yet again obsessing over Rabidoux, who’s been talking mostly about Fortress and COVID-19 cases lately.

      Siddall hasn’t moved goal posts; the forecast nationally was a 9-18% decline, and he says he thinks the worst case (-18%) will be avoided, yet there will still be declines.

      And all of this sounds pretty similar to your position on the stock market. Armageddon is coming, beware the bull trap, breathlessly celebrating every down day only to slink away again when it climbs back up the next.

      As for “fear pegging”… I’d suggest coming up with another name…

    2. Chris

      at 10:02 pm

      More rubbish anecdata from noted perma-bear… wait… Scott Ingram?

      “Anecdotal… Freehold cooling?

      Have seen some listings not selling on offer night that I would’ve expected to sell. (Can’t tell if got offers and expectations too high, or just no good offers). One East York semi took 3 listings and 26 days and got less than I’d have guessed.”

      https://twitter.com/areacode416/status/1309918414841032705

    3. Caprice

      at 5:56 pm

      Fear-pegging… I like it. Yeah, it’s always “wait for 6 months yada yada…”
      Meanwhile, the feds seem to have have unlimited capacity to bail out everyone with magic money, and the BOC is signalling no raise to interest rates any time soon.

  4. Simon Chalkland

    at 2:42 pm

    I first read Garth Turner’s “Greaterfool” around 2008 it was fun for awhile and he does have some good info on investing, his real estate advice is a disaster he is a proponent of the notion that if you say anything long enough you will eventually be right. I still check it from time to time but he is Trump like in his self promotion and the fact that he shares a lot with the yellow vester crowd are a turn off. He is a bean counter and should stick to that since his social commentary is toxic.

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