Dept. of Bert & Ernie. Leave it to NY City brokers to try yet a new cheap ploy to give the impression that real estate is nicer than it is. However, in this case, does it work, or does it backfire? Personally, we like spaces empty.
The listing is a Corcoran listing with doctored pics. Blogged by Englishman in NY, this from Jamie Pup:
OK, so I sent this to curbed on Friday but they haven't picked it up yet so I'll try here to get some opinions on the decor. That nice green couch certainly seems small enough to fit in a tight space.
(Thanks, Jaime!) MGR
Ugh. Here's the original image, just in case they move it...
www.flickr.com/photos/czarina/15484680/
Notice that they not only added [bad] furniture, but they also doctored it so that you see more sunlight in the room...
My then future wife and her sister used to live in suburban houses that were for sale. They got cheap rent, the agent got a house with some furniture in it. They had to keep it tidied up for anytime showings and then had to move when it sold. It got old fast, but she did live in an about 3,000 sq ft house for like $300/mo for a little while.
well I thought they did a good job on the shadow for the plant, until I noticed that they have the shadow going in the wrong direction. plus could they have tried just a little to get the perspective right? they seem to be very adept at using design markers, why not sketch all the furnature?
joe -- I don't think the broker did that sofa image...
I worked as a commercial artist for a company that published real estate magazines across the country. We NEVER would have let this photo run in one of our books. Besides false advertising, it's really cheesy looking. But realtors (one step up from used car salesmen) will try to get away with anything. I had one submit a image comprised of 2 photos slapped together. She was trying to make it look like the house was on a lake, when it was actually 1/4 mile from the water.
Isn't that the sofa from Blue's Clues?
So will the seller's agent accept a bad computer rendering of an offer letter--being handed to them by the VW "Fahrvegnugen" stick figure? Elmer Fudd holding a bag with a big $-sign on it for the downpayment?
Strike that. Foghorn Leghorn holding the big bag of money... He seems like more of a "closer" than Fudd.
Now cut, I say, cut that out boy!
The Sesame Street references were very funny and now the image of Foghorn Leghorn plonking a deposit down for that apt tops it off nicely.
I have some green markers and a photocopier, maybe if I start working now I could come up with the deposit for this place in cash.
If this is a co-op I would love to see the other tenants and their apartments. It would be great to have Dora the Explorer living upstairs...
I don't know what's funnier, the idea that something like this might actually be appealing, or all your "Toontown Goes Condo" comments. Hilarious.