Andrew Marzahl from Windermere stands to gross $13,485 from the sale of 1500 4th Ave #900 and these are the four photos he has attached to the listing:
Wow. I’m not a real estate agent but, I don’t think it’s a good idea to take photos with your circa 2000 camera phone and then stretch them in Microsoft Paint. Instead drop $170 on a nice Canon SD 750 and download Paint.net (its free.) Or better yet hire a professional photographer for $150! Hell, make your client pay for the photos.
BTW, what’s up with the $670/month HOA dues? The place is only 863 square feet.
Update: The 3 bad photos have been removed from the listing.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 CameronRex // Sep 4, 2008 at 10:37 am
$670/month - and I don’t belive there is parking in the building….and as many transients and/or drug dealers and trouble-makers per square inch outside your front door as any corner in SF or NYC….what a bargain!
2 EconE // Sep 4, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Thank God. I thought it was either my meds or my old age that had blurred my vision when I saw that listing.
3 keith // Sep 4, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I didn’t even know that building was residential.
CameronRex: if you’re worried about parking places and “trouble-makers” then downtown, or perhaps Seattle in general, doesn’t sound like the right place for you.
4 mdot // Sep 4, 2008 at 9:51 pm
To be fair to CameronRex, Fourth and Pike is probably one of the druggiest-filled, most bum-ridden corners in Seattle. You don’t have to be some yuppified surbanite to get that impression. Sadly, the Seaboard building is one of the cooler buildings in downtown Seattle. But Fourth and Pike is a pretty crappy corner to call home.
5 Vanderleun // Sep 4, 2008 at 11:11 pm
A dump on a stick.
6 jcricket // Sep 5, 2008 at 8:57 am
They made the upper floors of the building residential a few years back after struggling with office vacancies for years. The floor plate of the building simply isn’t conducive to what modern companies want (although it was when it was built).
But I agree with the other sentiments. It’s not like city living is ever tranquil, but being right by Westlake Park is a pretty tough place to live by Seattle standards.
7 Steve S. // Sep 5, 2008 at 10:04 am
Those pictures are inexcusable, but you are assuming he is getting a 3% commission for all we know he is listing the unit free but still if you are going to do something do it right!
8 EconE // Sep 5, 2008 at 10:18 am
Did you call the agent Matt? It appears that most of the photos have been removed. Perhaps they read your blog?
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