The REAL reasons the housing market is tanking...

I started to vent about my house hunting frustrations on facebook today. I decided there just wasn't enough room to really explain what I'm finding as we search for a new house. These examples may be hard to believe, but I have written each based on personal experience and I have created this photo-montage to demonstrate sellers' lack of judgement that I find so humorous.

If you want me to buy your house... I suggest the following:

• Take down the giant elk head hanging in your dining room. And maybe consider  moving the treadmill, unless you really think people eat, admire their trophies, and cycle-cise in one sitting. 

• Paint over the "under the sea" mural you thought looked good behind your fireplace.
• Ask your six cats to step out of the room while you snap a few pics. 
• This may be my all time favorite. Don't hang pictures of your sweetheart above your toilet in your bathroom-laundry combo. It's creepy, any way you slice it.

• Christmas lights?! Really? It's APRIL! (Amanda, how right you are)
• "Needs a little TLC" is not the same as "I cut out holes in the sheetrock just to see if anyone hid money behind the walls".
• I don't even know what to say about this one... Baywatch meets Top Shot meets Disney Princess?

• Leave!!  I shouldn't have to tour while you hang out in your mom's basement. 
• Close the lid and flush. Yes- this really happened.
• Don't advertise your Dexter-style basement fireplace as a selling point. 

• Don't advertise you have "new flooring" if all rooms have a different form. That doesn't count and you know it. 
• Wash the crayons off the wall your child decided to draw on -OR- don't ask me to take my shoes off upon entrance. The two just don't make sense together. It's like wearing socks with sandals.
• Don't take pictures of your shadow. Idiot.

No wonder the housing market is in trouble. Someone needs a new realtor! Send me your finds. I love 'em!