Selling the Unsellable Home - With Pictures
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Michael Baden is a kindred soul as he is willing to take on the impossible just to see what happens. A real estate agent in the Phoenix, Arizona region he has taken on the impossible home to sell, a 150,000 dollar fixer upper (which only a real estate agent could call a fixer upper) in the most disreputable condition imaginable.
Every picture of the home would make Athol Kay’s Bad MLS Photo of the Day Top 10 of all time hands down.
The dirt and filth that permeates this shack would make the infamous cleaning ladies from the BBC’s show “How Clean is Your House” go running in shock and awe.
And the best part of the listing, the home has tenants. My bet is that if you could ever arrange a showing they would be in the house when the buyers arrived.
If you have the stomach for it, here is a video tour to download, my bet this is the first time that this musical piece was used for a virtual tour. You have to love Michael Baden’s gumption and humor and if he does sell the home for the list price in this market he deserves to be Realtor of the Year for the nation!
Thanks to Jose Miguel at KNXV for the story.
If you watch this show, you can see Josh is the shadiest realtor on the show. 
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Comment by Sock Puppet on 30 September 2007:
I appreciate the link love, but I’m going to respectfully disagree that this is a candiate for a “Bad MLS Photo of the Day” Tom.
It’s a fine line between a “bad photo of a house”, and a “photo of a bad house”. In general the virtual tour photos seemed pretty decently shot. In focus, level, reasonably well lit.
The house is in bad, bad shape, but also appears (I’m guessing here) somewhat appropriately priced for its condition and size. So all in all, thumbs up to the agent that took it on and injected some humor and gumption into the marketing.
See one of my posts here http://www.reagentinct.com/2007/09/05/good-vibes-seeing-the-potential/ for a similar story.
Comment by Gerry Davidson on 5 October 2007:
The roof looks in pretty good shape. Is it possible, in the midst of Armageddon, these people actually put a new roof on their house? Forget the plural, this has got to be the master-mind of one.