Guy Catfished by a Shady Realtor's Listing, Nearly Buying an Adorable Duplex Attached to a Dilapidated, Rotting Shack

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Sep 28, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

This prospective homeowner nearly fell for a realtor's 'catfish' home listing that cleverly misled buyers from seeing a horribly unappealing reality–a vermin-ridden, shack rotting next door.

When you're in the market to buy a home, it's tough not to get stars in your eyes and imagine your life in every listing you see online. Especially when it comes to the rustic charms of colonial builds and 19th-century architectural details, some buyers can put the horse before the carriage, planning to drop half-a-mil or more on a home where they can only see half the picture. In the case of the guy in our next story, he learned through a mild deep dive that he was literally only seeing half the picture... Because the realtor had cropped out the worst part of his listing.

U/secondhandnews_ fell in love with this adorable duplex almost instantly, imagining what it might be like to own a house that looked like a real-life doll diorama. But before he got too hasty, he did his due diligence of researching the street a little bit more to get a lay of the neighborhood, and he was absolutely disgusted with what he found. Keep reading to cringe at this catfish moment when a buyer nearly leapt into bed next door to the crypt keeper.