Wednesday WTF

The One Where We Scare Up a Great Starter Home

By Bethany Erickson / September 25, 2019 /

I’m gonna call it, and you’re probably gonna argue with me, but this week’s Wednesday WTF is a listing for a great starter home where the Realtor has done something that has been done to death. So, meet this cute little starter home in Florida. As with everything in Florida, it seems normal until it’s…

The One Where They Put the ‘Home’ in Homicide (or Something)

By Bethany Erickson / September 18, 2019 /

I’m not sure what it says when two different people send you two different stories about murder houses in a week, but hi, it’s Wednesday and we’re going to talk about homicide and houses. No, not houses where the photography is so bad, or the cleaning so derelict that it looks like a murder house,…

The One Where It’s Charming Until It’s Not Charming and You Die

By Bethany Erickson / September 11, 2019 /

So, about 20 awesome readers of the Wednesday WTF sent me this listing for this uh, charming abode in Australia. So obviously, it’s this week’s column, right? I mean, I’ll be honest, at first this rock house seems like a real historic charmer. It has a clawfoot tub, for chrissakes, which everyone knows means it’s…

Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Smart Phone for Listing Photos

By Bethany Erickson / September 4, 2019 /

So, we’ve talked about the value good real estate photography can have for a listing, and how hiring a professional is cheaper than your first price reduction, right? And we’ve talked about how even though your smart phone has a camera, it’s not for listing photos, it’s for snapping pictures of your food and your…

The One We Can’t Say In the Headline Because Uh, Yeah …

By Bethany Erickson / August 28, 2019 /

So, hi. I hope you aren’t currently eating your breakfast, because I couldn’t put what today’s Wednesday WTF was about in the headline because, well, it’ll put you off your feed entirely. You see, this week’s story comes from (as many of the best WTFs do) Florida, where a couple bought a luxury vacation home…