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"Fumbled marble" - Do Your Listing Remarks Reflect Your Life?

The year is rolling along at the speed of idiots! Check out these bloopers from the MLS and real estate ads, and I’m sure I’ll get no argument.  Jane Peters of Los Angeles and Michael Jacobs of Pasadena both found some great bloopers this week. I suspect this year will be a wild ride, folks!

Fumble, Bumble and Stumble

“Fumbled marble adores baths” (Fumbled agent adores martinis.)

“Somother work to be done” (Say good-bye to the mother-in-law.)

“Formal dinging room”  (Shag carpet, I presume?)

“Will maul your directly” (Said Sean Penn just before he took out two paparazzi.)

“Processing pee” (For those who wish to purchase a kidney…)

“This house has pizzas” (That explains the well-lit Domino’s sign on the roof.)

Biting the Dust Can Be Humiliating

“This is a crate house” (Then I suggest you climb inside and ship yourself to Crazytown.)

“Plaintain shutters on windows” (Monkeys crapping on window sills.)

“Submit to doc” (Not until he puts down that gigantic probe…)

“Certified insectors” (Certified by mosquitoes, I presume?)

“Sellers need  two moths to close” (Perhaps the insectors can help you out there.)

“Studding colors” (Let me guess, Viagra blue?)

Maybe There’s An Afterlife

“Turn at boweling lane” (Is that what the probe is for?)

“Posts have cemen support” (Again with the Viagra!)

That's all until next Friday, folks. In the meantime - Spell and Sell!

For more real estate humor, please visit Gwen at www.sherlockofhomes.blogspot.com/ or Agent Genius. For all your real estate needs, please go to www.LAhomesite.com

33 commentsGwen Banta • January 20 2012 02:55PM

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Thanks for the chuckles this Friday afternoon!  Gotta hit suggest.  I love your sense of humor!

Posted by Jan Green, RE/MAX Excalibur, Scottsdale, AZ, EcoBroker CDPE SFR (Scottsdale, Phoenix, Cave Creek, Carefree, Fountain Hills) 4 months ago

Oh my goodness. That is quite an assortment of errors. Guess I will spend some time checking that I don't have any like that.

Betty

Posted by Team Honeycutt (Allen Tate) 4 months ago

THANK YOU, JAN - AND HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

Betty, just tha fact that you care about professional presentation tells me you will probably never end up on the blooper blog!

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

These are hilarious.  I'm going to reblog.

Posted by Debbie Gartner - Westchester Flooring -Hardwood Floors Carpet Tile Refinish - (Floor Coverings International Westchester NY & Stamford CT) 4 months ago

Gwen -- some of these are becoming so difficult to decipher, we might need to ask the realtors for decoder rings.  Or maybe they will make more sense if we have a few more drinks before trying to read them.  Have a great weekend!

Posted by Steven Cook (MLO #293441) Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, King Counties (CRL Home Loans, Inc. 12202 Pacific Ave #A, Tacoma, WA) 4 months ago

Gwen~ Love your advice at the end, spell and sell.  I think my favorite is the "studding colors".  I suppose that might help to sell the right barn!!!  :-)

Posted by Donna Foerster, Metro Denver Real Estate Agent (Rocky Mountain Real Estate Advisors) 4 months ago

Hello Gwen........

If it is Friday, it is time to enjoy Gwen, if only vicariously.

Why don't you give us a report on your trip to the Big Apple?

Thanx for the continued bon mots.

RJ

Posted by Ronald Curtis (Continental Properties) 4 months ago

Gwen Does it best!  Again.  I know better than to eat or drink  when I click on your blog. 

Posted by Marge Piwowarski ( US Preferred Realty, inc.) 4 months ago

So darn funny....and your commentary was hysterical. Saw Mike's reblog...so glad I did. Thanks for the laugh

Posted by Karen Fiddler, Broker/Realtor, Mission Viejo ((949)510-2395,The Fiddler Realty Team/eVantage Real Estate) 4 months ago

Gwen, saw your blog via reblog from Mike, always room to giggle a bit. We need those moments of brief brain slip. ooooops I lost my marbles!

Posted by Bruce Hicks, CRS, Your Friend & Helper for a Lifetime! 808.955.1577 (Best Homes Hawaii) 4 months ago

OMG... what a great laugh to end my Friday... thanks so much, you are too funny!!!

Posted by Peggy Hughes - SF NYC LA (PHA/Peggy Hughes Associates - Professional Moving Organizer) 4 months ago

I suggested, too funny, thanks for your contribution, we all need to laugh more!!!!

Posted by Mary Macy - Top Agents Atlanta Metro (Top Agents Atlanta Metro) 4 months ago

HI Gwen, I'm another one who came over via Mike's reblog.  Thanks for the laughter -- can't ever have too much!

Posted by Dianne Goode, North Raleigh Realtor ~ Raleigh Cary Realty ~ (Author of Field Guide to Difficult Clients ) 4 months ago

Gwen... You just make Fridays funnier! (& after today, I needed "funny")

You've got a lot of Pizzas, yourself!

Posted by Brian Morgenweck Broker/Owner, GRI, CRS, ABR, SRS (Power Realty Group, LLC Bergen County, NJ ) 4 months ago

Thats some funny but insanely stupid stuff. A good reason to proof read then read again before you look the fool (lol)

 

Anyway enjoyed the laugh

Posted by US Mortgages - David Shamansky 4 months ago

Hi Gwen--Yeah, it's Friday and time for my weekly tearful laugh.  This week is crazy funny--especially the last one.  So love your sense of humor. 

Posted by Janet Jones, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii Home Staging/Interior Redesign (Just Your Style Interiors, LLC) 4 months ago

Is spell checking some kind of foreign experience?  Keep the bloopers coming.

Posted by Webster, Ma Conrad Allen, Realtor (Re/Max Professional Asociates) 4 months ago

Amazing yet again.  It is frightening really.  People don't think, or edit, or both.  And that one entry must have been written first thing in the morning, while processing pee...

Posted by Jay Markanich - Northern VA Home Inspector (Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC) 4 months ago

Gwen, was the boweling lane and cemen support in the same listing?  I'm thinking Freud would have had a great explaination for that one.  Yeow!

Posted by Mike Cooper (Winchester Real Estate Sales, Cornerstone Business Group Inc) 4 months ago

Gwen

I always look for your MLS bloopers. While laughing my head off, I make a mad dash to check my listings over and over again to make sure I am not one of these idiots!

Thanks for the belly laugh as always

Posted by Pacita Dimacali - ePRO, SRES, CDPE, MBA Alain Pinel in Alameda County CA (Alain Pinel) 4 months ago

Hello Gwen,

Another great list!  Although I love the "fumbled marble", I think my favorite this time is the "studding colors"!

Posted by Lisa Von Domek - Broker/Associate (Lisa Von Domek & Associates / Real Living Real Estate Group) 4 months ago

Lisa, I love anything that's "studding"!

Pacita, I would make a mad dash myself, but I might spill my vodka :)

Mike, the boweling line came from a hara-kiri expert :) And thank you for the re-blog!!!

Conrad, English is foreign to a lot of us it seems!

Janet, I love that one, too. I know some guys who highly over-value "cemen" support!

Jay, that line may have been written after an all-night kegger.

@ US Mortgages - You are right - "insane" is the operative term here.

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

Brian, I hope the laughter carries you through the weekend!

Dianne, welcome...and be sure to drop by every Friday for the blooper scooper.

Mary, thank you for suggesting. I agree, laughter is almost as fun as Christmas.

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

Gwen, I have no words.. What are they thinking?!? Wait, they are not.

Posted by Patty Da Silva, CDPE BROKER- REALTOR® Davie, Cooper City, Plantation, Weston. (BROKER of Green Realty Properties® - 954-667-7253) 4 months ago

Ahhh, Gwen!  Thanks for starting my day with a laugh!  Who says real estate isn't fun?

Posted by Wende Schoof ~ WendeByTheBay.com 650.504.0219 ~ San Francisco Peninsula (Keller Williams Realty) 4 months ago

Patty, for some people, thinking can be dangerous!

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

Wende, real estate IS fun...but maybe for these literacy-challenged blooper perps...not so much :)

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

And they go on and on.  You really should write that book, Gwen.

Posted by Jane Peters - Los Angeles Real Estate DRE# 01439865 (Power Brokers Int'l) 4 months ago

Gwen, Benita has a link to this on her featured post. I'm so glad she did because I might have missed it. Very funny indeed. Nice way to start the week. :)

Posted by Connie Harvey Realtor Nashville TN Real Estate (Pilkerton Realtors) 4 months ago

Gwen,

We must know some of the same people.

 

Posted by Patty Da Silva, CDPE BROKER- REALTOR® Davie, Cooper City, Plantation, Weston. (BROKER of Green Realty Properties® - 954-667-7253) 4 months ago

Jane, thanks for your support, but it's hard to type while laughing my arse off!

Connie, thank you and welcome to the blooper blog, with new posts every Friday. And thank you, Benita!!!

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

Patty, you're probably right...but I'm not sure what that says about us!

Posted by Gwen Banta (Sotheby's International Realty) 4 months ago

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