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Estate Agents "Spin"
archie9uk
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Estate agents are well known for using words and phrases that put a "spin" on a property. They describe a place as "cosy" or "bijou" when they mean small and poky, or "ideal investment opportunity" when they mean it needs loads of work doing.
I saw an advert the other day that I thought was really pushing things, though. It said "no garden to worry about!" suggesting it was "ideal for busy professionals"! Using the lack of a garden as a selling point?! They are obviously getting desperate....
I saw an advert the other day that I thought was really pushing things, though. It said "no garden to worry about!" suggesting it was "ideal for busy professionals"! Using the lack of a garden as a selling point?! They are obviously getting desperate....
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I don't know which are funnier, estate agent's descriptions of properties, or people's descriptions' of themselves in dating ads....
curvy lady = obsese fat woman
average looking chap - pug ugly :rotfl:
Not that I have replied to those ads, just what I've heard
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Estate agents are well known for using words and phrases that put a "spin" on a property. They describe a place as "cosy" or "bijou" when they mean small and poky, or "ideal investment opportunity" when they mean it needs loads of work doing.
I saw an advert the other day that I thought was really pushing things, though. It said "no garden to worry about!" suggesting it was "ideal for busy professionals"! Using the lack of a garden as a selling point?! They are obviously getting desperate....
And imagine the Vendor's delight if the EA didn't at least try to put a positive spin on it!?
But then again 'you can't polish a t urd' My home is usually the House Buying, Renting and Selling Forum where I can be found trying to (sometimes unsucessfully) prove that not all Estate Agents are crooks. With 20 years experience of Sales/Lettings and having bought and sold many of my own properties I've usually got something to say
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I know what you mean about funny ways of phrasing things but I still think the EA that told me yesterday not to hold him to it but he was ''very certain that the marketed had bottomed out and would only go up now'' so not to worry about it when thinking of putting an offer was probably the most optomistic (or desperate) person I've ever met!0
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