weird news

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

By Bethany Erickson / September 4, 2019 /
iPhone

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…

Read More

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

By Bethany Erickson / August 28, 2019 /
headline

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…

Read More

Let’s Taco ‘Bout Whether The World Needs a Taco Bell Hotel

By Bethany Erickson / August 14, 2019 /
Taco Bell

So, if you’re not up on your fast-food news, it may indeed be new information when I tell you that Taco Bell opened a Taco Bell Hotel in Palm Springs recently. “From check-in to check-out, The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort reimagines what a hotel stay can be, unveiling a destination inspired by…

Read More

When Life Hands You Fiery Lemons, Make Fiery Lemonade

By Bethany Erickson / August 7, 2019 /

So, say you have this listing, and it’s been pretty much destroyed in a fiery disaster at some point. And say you have access to a picture from the day it caught fire. And say you know the value of the property is in the land.  Now, some might just list the property with say,…

Read More

Oh, Norway’s Got Jokes Now: The One About Ignoring the March of Time

By Bethany Erickson / July 31, 2019 /
Norway

So it turned out to be a joke, but the entire island of Sommarøy in Norway decided to pull a fast one and got dozens of media outlets to write about how they were just doing away with the concept of time. But boy, did they have everyone going there for a minute. And they…

Read More