40 Times People Found Such Ridiculous Real Estate Photos, They Just Had To Shame Them In This Online Group

A picture says a thousand words. Or raises a million questions. Maybe even more when it comes to real estate listings. After all, it’s not every day you get to see a ceiling piano.

But the appropriately titled subreddit ‘Ridiculous Real Estate‘ is full of such absurdity. Much like the legendary ‘Ugly Irish Houses‘ and ‘The Broke Agent‘, it shares the funniest and weirdest architectural and interior design features that homeowners have ever installed.

It’s like the polar opposite of all those pretty decor boards on Pinterest.

#1 Groovy!

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#2 Hope You Like Natural Lighting

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Lately, ‘Ridiculous Real Estate‘ must have seen an increased number of submissions as the Covid-19 pandemic upended the home-buying process. Historically-low mortgage rates coupled with an inventory shortage created a red hot market, with houses selling within just hours of being listed, often for well over the asking price.

And while no one knows exactly what the future has in store, housing experts told CNBC Make It that in 2022, buyers can expect similar trends to the past two years: elevated prices, low inventory, and fast turnaround.

Zillow predicts that it will continue to be a seller’s market and home values are expected to increase by double-digital percentage points, but Skylar Olsen, principal economist at Tomo, a home-buying app, thinks it won’t be quite as wild as it was this year.

“None of us can promise that [finding] housing will be easy,” Olsen highlighted. “But it feels reasonable to promise that it will be easier than this past year.”

#3 Yes This Is The Front, Street Facing Window

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#4 I Love It But Wife Says No Way!

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#5 A Bathtub With A View

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The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates a few times in 2022, which means mortgage rates will likely rise. Both Redfin and Realtor.com predict a 30-year-fixed mortgage rate will reach 3.60% by the end of 2022, compared to an average of 3.30% now.

But according to Olsen, that’s not necessarily bad news for buyers. The silver lining of higher mortgage rates is that fewer speculative buyers will be in the market (because there is less money to be made). That could help the average person.

“When you have higher interest rates, it becomes more of the people who buy homes just to live in them. That’s something the market will benefit from, coming back down to sanity.”

#6 I Think This One Counts

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#7 It Gets Worse As You Scroll…

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#8 Matriochka House

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“When buying a home in the next year or longer, it will be important to watch new listings, including ‘coming soon’ listings, and be very prepared to not only visit the home quickly, but prepare to decide and extend an offer almost immediately,” Glenn Phillips, CEO and lead economic analyst for Lake Homes Realty, told CNBC Make It.

But with that said, don’t overpay for a house that, for example, includes 13 dead people out back. Prices will be up, so be careful not to take something outside of what’s reasonable for your budget.

#9 I Don’t Think I Would Ever Run Out Of Cabinet Space, That’s For Sure!

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#10 House As Advent Calendar

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#11 A Carpeted Pool!

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#12 I Heard Y’all Like Castles…

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#13 Anybody Want To Start A Cult? 21,000 Sqft Rural Compound Listed Near Me That Used To Be A “Faith Healing Ministry”

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#14 Sexy Bath…

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#15 Have You Ever Wanted To Live In A Town But The Town Is Inside Your Own Home?

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#16 What In Tarnation

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#17 Probably The Wildest House In The Whole Country (Slovenia). Looks Innocuous On The Outside, But Oh Boy…

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#18 Okay, We’re Doing Ceiling Pianos Now. Sure

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#19 House Includes 13 Dead People Out Back

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#20 Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!

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#21 Bedroom Toilets And Flying Saucers

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#22 Ideal Bedroom For Your Least Favourite Child

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#23 One Room Studio Apartment In San Francisco. This Is It, This Is The Apartment. Total Steal For $1400/Month

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#24 Yeah, Certainly Not My Taste In Decor But It’s Not Exces— Dear God What Is All That?

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#25 The Castle Garage

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#26 I’ve Got A Fever And The Only Prescription Is More Columns…

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#27 Someone Found A Great Home Improvement Deal On Tile…

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#28 Lovecraftian Nightmare Geometry

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#29 When You Buy The Light Package Before The House

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#30 This Door That Only Opens 18 Inches

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#31 Red vs. Blue

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#32 I Don’t Really Know Where To Start… Here Goes… 8 Kitchens And It’s A Time Capsule…

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#33 Tubular

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#34 Liminal Space Meets Ridiculous Real Estate

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#35 It’s A Brick… House…

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#36 Let’s Just Put The Island Riiiiiight Over Here. No A Little Bit Further. Keep Going

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#37 Ever Get Hungry While Showering? Then This Is For You

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#38 Just A Tub

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#39 It’s A Pretty Little Kitchen

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#40 When The Column Is Bigger Than The Beam It’s Supporting…

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Author: Justinas Keturka