They sell disposable cameras at the drug store, you know

Call me a spendthrift, but I think when you're asking over $500,000 for a house it's okay to splurge on a camera. Go on. It's fine. You don't have to use your cell phone to take the photo.

Butter? Parquet!

Found by dw, a longboater and househunter, who saw them in the Seattle PI: these excellent walls. I really do like how they look -- is that so wrong? But I am glad the homeowner stopped himself before he veneered the ceiling...

It gives a lovely light

Another delight from Mary, the Nebraskan realtor. Yes, it's a wood-burning stove. Suspended from the ceiling. In the basement.

Fine -- I'll do it myself

I think the sofa is trying to push the chair out of the photo.

Do you suppose all Earth creatures behave like that-a-way?

Found by Mary, a realtor in Nebraska. Thank you for sharing. If this is one of the houses you're selling... well, it will make the right person very happy.

And before anyone gets all het up -- she typed "realtor" with a lower-case "r" and I'm just copying her and I have no opinion on "Realtor" vs "realtor" vs "real estate agent" vs whatever.

Hey, what's under the tarp?

No... on second thought, maybe I'd rather not know.

This house is being sold not only "as is," but "where is," according to the listing. It never crossed my mind that location was up for discussion. Perhaps I should try to renegotiate my house into having a view of the Caribbean.

UP and down, and UP and down...

Twenty push ups every day will strengthen your house's foundation.

Dum de dum de dum...

Oh, hi, honey. Nope, just taking some photos. No need to get up. I'm not selling the house or anything. Gotta go!

C'mon, lamp! Come with us!

Off to celebrate the 4th of July, the chairs march out of the room.

"FHA rehabilitation loan is adviseable on this property."

And with this loan, you can fix this... uh... corner? Floating ceiling? Interior? Exterior? I have no idea.

I LOVE YOU TINA

Know what's lovely? Suddenly finding a whole bunch of people who are just as nosy as you are. Thank you, Metafilter!

An example of this excellence: in a comment for one of my old posts, becca jo pointed out the photo above. How could I have missed it and all its romantic glory?

PLEASE "CLEAN" THE SINK WHEN YOU ARE "DONE"

It's so easy to imagine myself living here with housemates who never clean and who I leave passive-aggressive notes for and secretly resent and then I move out and grow up and yet still fume about years later and...

Major selling point: trash can lids.

Aw -- it looks just like my place.

(In my defense: we were having the floors redone in the bedrooms and living room, so everything from those rooms had to fit into the family room. That's why it looked like that. No, really. And we're going to move the stuff back out to where it belongs any day now.)

It's a golden housing-market

Half a million. HALF A MILLION! Half a million bucks they're asking, and they can't be bothered to flush?

In an average American home, the TV is on more than 8 hours a day.

Drunk tank pink

The theory that pink prison cells will help calm inmates has been disproven, I believe... which leaves absolutely no good reasons for doing this to a room.

The Realtor slipped me a mickey

The last thing I saw before I passed out was the fridge, taunting me like a cruel ice goddess. "Who's in control of the keyboard now, wisenheimer?" I thought I heard it say as I fell into a deep, dreamless sleep...

I'll sell you this house for... one MILLION DOLLARS!

(Look in the top right corner.)

Included: oven, fridge, surly teenager

Just what I'm looking for in a house!

For keeping kosher?

This 414 square foot studio seems to have two kitchens. Maybe the bottom one is a real kitchen, and they wisely moved all the appliances to the other corner to take the photo... and then forgot to move them out of the way for the second photo?