bleah nothing like being disappointed in a property. could be worse though. i went and saw an apartment in Virginia that looked really good online but was super sad IRL. and then on top of that, the woman in the leasing office, even though I contacted her to tell her I was going abroad, thought it was ok to give my info to other people in her rental management company so i wound up getting spammed for all these apartments I didn't want or need... bad online reviews and the threat of a cease and desist got them to fuck off though
Yeah. It's really interesting how realtors will list properties to make them seem better than they are. If there are photos taken under low light or weird angles, chances are they're trying to hide a flaw in the room. If the place has 3 bedrooms listed but the majority of the photos are of the living room and renovated kitchen, the rest might be questionable. If it's a larger house and there's only five or six photos total, not even enough to cover the entire place, something is really suspect. On and on. Apartment hunting seems to be similar. Also, that rental company sounds shit crazy. I can't believe they would do something like that in general, let alone to a person who basically says "Hey. Don't call me."
right? like hey your rentals are not that great. harassing potential renters is the wrong way to go about it because i WILL hit your social media and cost you other potential renters. i had phone calls and emails almost constantly for about a week before they stopped. weirdly enough, i think it's the opposite for apartments. i've found that extremely bright photos are a bad sign because it means they're trying to hide an absence of natural light. you can also almost hide the fact that they have that nasty vinyl fake hardwood with enough additional light too.