Funky listing photos

Just because.

The World's Largest House:http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090119/worlds-largest-hounse-sultan-brunei.htm

It contains 1,788 rooms, 257 bathrooms, and a floor area of 2,152,782 square feet (200,000 m²). Amenities include 5 swimming pools, and an air conditioned stable for the Sultan's 200 polo ponies, a 110-car garage, a banquet hall that can be expanded to accommodate up to 4,000 guests, and a mosque accommodating 1,500 people.

The palace was built in 1984 at a cost of around $1.4 billion USD
 
irvinehomeowner said:
^ 110-car garage.

Awesome.
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For most people that should be plenty of space. For them it will not hold the entire car collection:
It is also a home to a car collection that includes custom-made Ferraris and Bentleys as well as 165 Rolls-Royces.
 
That isn't a house, its a las vegas resort and casino.  Only it got lost on the way to vegas. Like. Really super lost.
 
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Garden-Grove/12755-Sussex-Cir-92840/home/3959016 

Took me a while to figure out what that ugly metal thing was in the kitchen. 
 
Heh... looks like the back of stove that you would usually have against the wall.

It could be a vent system since it does not look like the kitchen has one there. But those are usually pop up so when you aren't cooking it doesn't look as weird as that picture.
 
As the property description states, it is Stunning, but in a very bad way.
That is the back of a freestanding range, not a pop up downdraft vent.  The owner was too cheap to buy a slide-in range which is the proper appliance for the spot.  It only costs $100-$200 more than a freestanding range. 
Just imagine what other shortcuts the owner's been taking in places where it's not so visible.
 
It looks like they did some really basic fixing up -- painted it in one of those peachy almond colors that was super hot during the boom, threw down some cheap laminate flooring (my friend redid his house for something like a dollar per sq ft), white baseboards. 

But then the kitchen is just inexplicable -- did they rearrange the kitchen and then run out of money before they could replace the stove?  The stove looks OLD - its got a beige top and black back.    Did they change their kitchen from this (http://www.redfin.com/CA/Garden-Grove/11895-Firebrand-Cir-92840/home/3959543) to that?  Or is the Firebrand kitchen a remodel (the cabinetry looks newer to me)?  But if the kitchen configuration is original why would they have that style of stove? 


Heh, speaking of shortcuts  -- a few years after we moved into the house my parents live in now (summer of 8th grade) there was a heavy rainy season and we suddenly noticed a growing dark patch in the ceiling on the first floor.  My parents figured they'd go ahead and open a hole up there and see if it was easily fixible or if they needed to call someone in.  So they cut open a hole, my dad gets up on the ladder and sticks his head inside and then freaks out  --- There was a 5 gallon bucket sitting on a beam, drywalled up inside the ceiling, and it had finally filled up and started overflowing.  Apparently the old owners had known there was a leak and rather than like, you know, FIXING it, they just shoved a bucket in there and sealed it back up.   
 
Talyssa said:
Apparently the old owners had known there was a leak and rather than like, you know, FIXING it, they just shoved a bucket in there and sealed it back up.   
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And that is what scares me about older homes.

But hey... who's not to say builders don't do that on new homes too?

"Oh... that... uh... bucket was your hidden .25 bathroom."
 
Hah... I knew we had a thread for this.

Anyways... take a gander at this 1st photo (the one you see when you look at websites):

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I'm not sure if the house under construction is the one you are buying, or if that's the view out of the one you are buying.
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/98-Marblehead-92620/home/28931790
 
About 2 years ago Redfin had a link to a property in Elsinore. Nice house. Basic tract home area. When you looked at the neighborhood from those "top down" satellite views, Google Earth had a snap shot just after the house was built. In the back yard was this enormous swastika landscaped - not carved - into the grass. Don't think the picture is still there in the IE forums, but that had to have been the strangest, yet inadvertent photo I've seen.
 
irvinehomeowner said:
Hah... I knew we had a thread for this.

Anyways... take a gander at this 1st photo (the one you see when you look at websites):

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I'm not sure if the house under construction is the one you are buying, or if that's the view out of the one you are buying.
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/98-Marblehead-92620/home/28931790
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Either way, both homes are under construction.  You can see that the window you're looking out of is still being built also.
 
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