What words are used to sell homes? Let’s get lighthearted because it’s been intense lately with the pandemic. I thought it would be fun and fascinating to see how many times certain words were used in real estate listings.
Realtors do a great job selling and here are words used in public property descriptions in MLS listings in the Sacramento region. There were 33,884 sales since last year. Some of this is just for fun.
How often were the following words used in home sales?
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RESOURCES:
New market video: Here’s my weekly video. I talk through two markets. The future and the present. I also have a woodworking sign giveaway in the video. Check it out below (or here).
Millennial Millionaire Podcast: I was on this podcast recently and the episode is called “Teacher turned appraiser by accident.” Yes, I used to teach Middle School if you didn’t know. This was recorded about two months ago.
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Questions: What stands out to you most about the words above?
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MLS descriptions and photos are a great source of humor. This appraiser reads the words in MLS listings as follows (Realtor description=Appraisers interpretation): Cosmetic Fixer=Complete dump-bring a nose plug, Handyman Special=Tear Down, Peekaboo View=No View, Honey Stop the Car=It better be a brewery or tacos.
Ha. That’s great Mark. Thanks. I cannot believe I forgot to include “fixer upper” on my list too. Missed opportunity.
Great post! Now I am really curious about the 7 tigers!!! Animal or the golf pro?
Thanks Pia. I wish it was something cool like, “This is a horse and tiger property,” but it’s really a mention of a type of wood called Tigerwood (or spelled in MLS at times as Tiger wood). 🙂
Fun stuff. I decided to search my MLS for the ones you show zero. I came up with a bunch of “legit” because I was getting results for legitimate. No Tiger King, helper monkey, or Star Wars. However, I did find four uses of “tattoo” in our MLS. Three were homes that had been used as a home business tattoo parlor and one was suggesting it would make a good one.
That’s epic Gary. Thanks so much for searching. I’m elated to hear about tattoo being in your MLS too. Ha.
This was fun! I am curious about the use of some of the words, such as Tiger! Joe Exotic graduated high school from our small town but I have yet to see any mention of it or the word Tiger in our MLS. Nor do I see any impact on the real estate market here for this little known fact. Nor do I really expect it too. Good stuff!
That’s wild to hear Joe Exotic graduated from the same school. So you guys are basically friend then? 🙂 The references actually include things like Tiger Lilies, Tiger Wood, Tiger’s eye, etc… If only it was actually animals…
Ha! I wondered if it was actual Tigers. I have known of people in this general area that at one time owned tigers and there used to be tiger sanctuary about an hour from where we live. Not sure if it is still there or not.
No, I do not know Joe but some of my friends remember him from high school. Marched in the band. I do know that he came to our little town in 2016 to give a speech as he was evidently running for president at the time. I didn’t know anything about him at that time nor did I hear him speak. Small,… scratch that, Crazy world!
Small word. My wife and I watched the Tiger King and it was such a train wreck. But we couldn’t look away…
Same with us.
Most Realtors (aka Stealators) are commission driven hacks who have no skills and make no money unless a sale occurs. This drives them to say anything to get a sale so they can put food on the table.
So essentially they will say ANYTHING. Their “Words” are usually meaningless.
Strong opinion Stefon. I disagree though based on experience. There is certainly a spectrum of skill level among agents, but that’s really true in any profession. This is even true among appraisers.
I enjoyed reading your blog post today, Ryan Lundquist.
Your posts are very informative.
I appreciate you and your blog post and I look forward to reading your posts once you publish them.
Thank you
You do a GREAT job.
Sincerely,
Del Barbray
Thank you so much Del. I appreciate it.
Great info Ryan! Thumbs up from me!
Thanks so much DeeDee. I had fun with this, and I think it’s fascinating also.
Ryan—Thumbs up! I got a lot out of your market analysis and truly wish we (appraisers) could be wizards and extend those prognostications you presented into the next 6 mos.—–I can practically visualize you balancing on the board atop the bottle trick.—-Loved the “Tiger” discussion. Long ago, my Dad’s favorite saying supporting proceeding promptly, was: “Go get ’em,Tiger”….this was well before Tiger Woods was even playing par! Keep up the good work!, I like the Podcast with visuals, its nice to hear your voice and, I’m sure, gives your fingers a break from the keyboard!
Hugs and Elbow-bumps!
Sandy Davidowski, Appraiser
Thank you so much Sandy. You are such an encouragement. I appreciate you.
Ryan, you crack me up dude! The analogies you use and some of the image displays depict your awesome personality and down to earth style.
Information is always data driven and I appreciate that. You’re awesome thanks
Thanks so much Johnny. I appreciate it. Life is short. We need to smile more. That’s for sure. 🙂