Ads on Daft.ie with no/only one/crap pictures! Grrrrrrrrr!

NickCarraway

Just put some decent pics up! Its not that hard.

I actually find ads with only one pic (of the outside of the house usually) the worst. I mean if you can put one pic up, why not put up more? Showing the inside of the house preferably.

There should be a 3 photo minimum. I actually don't contact such ads (unless they sound really good) out of frustration and spite.

Is it just me?

Heckler

I think its free to post one pic but to add more you have to pay about E20. Probably why lots of places have only one pic.

EKRIUQ

Nothing free about advertising with daft.ie

Tawfee

Most annoying ones are those where the estate agent puts up an image of just their logo & the ad is still listed as having pictures!

Ste.phen

Tawfee wrote: »

Most annoying ones are those where the estate agent puts up an image of just their logo & the ad is still listed as having pictures!

I think if you report those ads daft removes the logo, so it's back to its proper 'has no pictures' status, and won't show up in searches of ads with images only.

SoupyNorman

Agents and Landlords only shoot themselves in the foot by holding back with pictures.

I don't even bother with those posts on DAFT. I cant see the reason why you would not want people to see the whole property unless there was something to hide.

Eglinton

bravestarr082 wrote: »

Agents and Landlords only shoot themselves in the foot by holding back with pictures.

I don't even bother with those posts on DAFT. I cant see the reason why you would not want people to see the whole property unless there was something to hide.

I'm the same. I only ever search for ads with pictures whether I'm looking for real or just browsing prices. In my opinion most ads without pictures are hiding something. More than likely they are just pure muck.

um7y1h83ge06nx

I had a sharing ad up on Daft around the Christmas period.

I was getting no bites with just 2 or 3 standard photos. Folllowing advice here, I put effort into preparing the house and taking a good few photos.

I selected the best and ended up withabout 8 or 9 photos in the ad. It really paid off and the number of calls I recieved increased massively, and I got some-one.

Danbo!

Yeah, looking to rent at the moment and this is quite frustrating. I understand there may be still tenants in the house but even still, you would think the landlord would have some photos of the interior.

Check out these 3 beautiful and professional shots :rolleyes:
www.daft.ie/2679222

ohnoigotsick

didn't know about the 1 free photo job with daft. my auctioneer has one photo up of the outside of the house and i have a nice house inside. must take a few snaps and send it into him to put up on daft if it's such a put off

MysticalSoul

I didn't know it was such a put off either. As an owner occupier, am not really comfortable putting pics of my home up on the net, so is a case of damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Even though I don't have the apartment number up, would it not increase the likelihood of being broken into?

SoupyNorman

Stee wrote: »

Yeah, looking to rent at the moment and this is quite frustrating. I understand there may be still tenants in the house but even still, you would think the landlord would have some photos of the interior.

Check out these 3 beautiful and professional shots :rolleyes:
www.daft.ie/2679222

Unless it's an alfresco room?

hobochris

Stee wrote: »

Yeah, looking to rent at the moment and this is quite frustrating. I understand there may be still tenants in the house but even still, you would think the landlord would have some photos of the interior.

Check out these 3 beautiful and professional shots :rolleyes:
www.daft.ie/2679222

I can only assume they are trying to advertise "failsafe IT".

Daft.ie: Claire

Heckler wrote: »

I think its free to post one pic but to add more you have to pay about E20. Probably why lots of places have only one pic.

Hi all,

It costs €20 to advertise your property to let on Daft.ie
You can upload up to 10 photographs for a standard ad and the number is unlimited for premium ads.

We strongly recommend you add photographs to your advert.
If you need any tips or advice, give us a call on 01 421 8700.

inforfun

I once viewed an apartment that was advertised as having "a great view over Dublin" but no pics whatsoever.
When i was there, there was actually 1 spot i could see a bit over Dublin when i was standing on my toes. Being 6'3'' i was probably one of the few lucky ones having that "great" view.
Apartment itself was just plain dirty and very scarcely furnished.

So that was the last time i bothered about an ad on Daft without pics.
Also the ones that have pics that are made with some low res phone camera i will not pay attention too. If an owner/agent show so little effort in presenting the property properly i dont even want to think about the effort it will take me to get stuff fixed if something breaks down.

The pics in an ad should already give me the wouldnt-mind-living-there idea before i make the effort of visiting a place.

AARRRGH

I always assumed no photos meant the place was a kip...?

Senna

There's an EA in donegal that has all his houses on daft.ie. Each house has one photo of the outside and a description 1 sentence long e.g. 4 bed detached house, 1 unsuite, 2 reception rooms. wonderful views.:rolleyes: Nothing else only contact info.
I can't understand how none of his vendors haven't complained, especially seen their paying for the advert.

tfeldi

Problem with the photos is that sometimes they already a few years old or the photos are an example of similar apartments and not from the actual apartment on offer.

coinin_clumhach

I've been looking for decent accommodation for a while now and never go for the ones without pictures, they're so offputting. , although you're allowed 10 pics, you rarely see anyone doing it. I can't understand the logic, especially now when there are so many people looking to fill rooms.

aquascrotum

Never even look at something with no photos.

Rightly or wrongly (as others have said), the assumption is no photos = something to hide.

I like interior and exterior photos too.

Weyhey

NickCarraway wrote: »

Just put some decent pics up! Its not that hard.

There should be a 3 photo minimum. I actually don't contact such ads (unless they sound really good) out of frustration and spite.

Is it just me?

Definitely not just you. I think most people are the same now.

After viewing over 10 properties in the last few weeks I only search for adverts with photos and I know nearly all prospective tenants are the same. I think no internal photos = kip.

Landlords/ladies - if you have any problems renting out your property and have no photos up I have absolutely no sympathy for you.

I put up a question on daft discussions asking landlords why they don't put up photos and saying that I and many others I know no longer search for properties unless they have them but typical daft wouldn't publish it!

oceanclub

I would just assume that any property without good photos is a kip, and move on; plenty of property available out there, if landlords want to shoot themselves in the head, fine with me.

P.

the_syco

MysticalSoul wrote: »

Even though I don't have the apartment number up, would it not increase the likelihood of being broken into?

If you included nothing but the gaff, the bedroom, the back garden, and trhe bathroom, you should be fine. The above is what I usually look for. A few people also give a picture of the sitting room, to show the comfy chairs.

MysticalSoul

Ok, will borrow my brother's digital camera at the weekend, and take some pics. When I was renting myself, I never would have thought that a place was best to avoid unless it had pics...

the_syco

MysticalSoul wrote: »

Ok, will borrow my brother's digital camera at the weekend, and take some pics. When I was renting myself, I never would have thought that a place was best to avoid unless it had pics...

Aye, likewise, but when I did it last, daft didn't exist. I plodded across Naas looking at various sh|tholes, until I came across one that was not bad. Had I photos, I would have been able to pick one place, ring them up, and it would have quickened the process.

Also, it'll stop people coming over just to have a look. It'll also ensure those that do ring you about your place know what the place looks like, and maybe have just one or two questions.

jessbud

I recently went to view a house to rent which was described as 'in excellent condition' with no photos on the ad. Well as you can imagine it was not in excellent condition, the place was filthy and smelt of damp. How the landlord had the nerve to show it like that is beyond me. I went in with my young son and five month old baby and how he thought I would let my kids live there is unbelievable.

I'll now only respond to ads that have photos, at least my time will not be wasted again.

ToxicPaddy

Had something similar happen myself when looking for a place to rent last year. The landlord and I use that term loosely was some farmer who took pride in showing me his fabulous house he was renting, (his words!!).. light fittings were hanging off the wall, the carpet was coming off the floor in clumps.. the double bed was 2 single beds pushed together with the 2 mattress held together with brown packing tape, I kid you not, and the kitchen sink had green mould growing in it..

I nearly puked when I walked in from the smell.

Add to the fact that he was walking around the house in his sh*te covered wellies and leaving lumps of dirt all over the place didnt help either..

Eventually moved into a place with some mates and when renting out a room we made use of the 10 pics you can put up on daft, had a load of calls in the first week and had the room rented within about 2 weeks of putting up the ad initially.

No idea why estate agents dont put up more pics.. maybe their laziness is showing now as people arent queuing up to buy properties anymore and now they actually have to sell them and make an effort..

Tox

NickCarraway

MysticalSoul wrote: »

Ok, will borrow my brother's digital camera at the weekend, and take some pics. When I was renting myself, I never would have thought that a place was best to avoid unless it had pics...

Great to hear this thread is having a positive impact. BTW, you must not have rented in quite a while or else have plenty of time to waste viewing houses with no pics! if you mean replying to ads in the paper, I understand, but the internet has made house hunting so much better. time for everyone to up their game when looking for tenants.

MysticalSoul

Not that long. Only 3 years since I last rented. However renting out the other room has never been a problem, and there has always been a selection of places in the complex I live in. However with the current climate, a little more effort can surely only help.

kathy2

I hate daft with a passion.

I cant believe how pure greedy they have become they charge up to €395 for some thing that costs them much less than a Cent.

I am so ashamed of those two lads they take greed and all thats wrong with the celtic tiger to extremes.

Thats my view, having used them from the start.

andrewh5

NickCarraway wrote: »

Just put some decent pics up! Its not that hard.

I actually find ads with only one pic (of the outside of the house usually) the worst. I mean if you can put one pic up, why not put up more? Showing the inside of the house preferably.

There should be a 3 photo minimum. I actually don't contact such ads (unless they sound really good) out of frustration and spite.

Is it just me?

I fully agree. How do they expect to sell/let the damn places? I wouldn't go to see a property I hadn't seen pics of first.

Why don't people attempt to 'dress' the places as well? Do they have no idea at all?

Eglinton

kathy2 wrote: »

I hate daft with a passion.

I cant believe how pure greedy they have become they charge up to €395 for some thing that costs them much less than a Cent.


I am so ashamed of those two lads they take greed and all thats wrong with the celtic tiger to extremes.


Thats my view, having used them from the start.

Did they not always charge for lettings and sales? They have to make their money somehow.

I assume it's still free to advertise a for a housemate/room mate?

Ste.phen

kathy2 wrote: »

I hate daft with a passion.

I cant believe how pure greedy they have become they charge up to €395 for some thing that costs them much less than a Cent.

I am so ashamed of those two lads they take greed and all thats wrong with the celtic tiger to extremes.

Thats my view, having used them from the start.

I thought it was 195 for sales, or 20 for rentals, and that you could leave the ad up indefinitely for that price? That's hardly a rip off considering the amounts of money involved, is it?
(Does 395 cover some special service?, I've never advertised with them myself)

Assets Model

aquascrotum wrote: »

Never even look at something with no photos.

Rightly or wrongly (as others have said), the assumption is no photos = something to hide.

I like interior and exterior photos too.

Well then you miss out on a great flat like the one I just got. All the cheapest ones don't have photos.

NickCarraway

Assets Model wrote: »

Well then you miss out on a great flat like the one I just got. All the cheapest ones don't have photos.

Depends on your definition of "great". If they are so great why don't they have pics or a higher rent.

DublinWriter

I'm currently selling my late Mum's house in D13 on daft with only one pic, so I guess I'm guilty as charged.

However, my reasoning for doing this was that I stripped the insides of the house out and I priced to sell accordingly.

Maybe it's the time of year, or the economic climate, but I'm having feck-all success with daft with only a handful of views per day. If it keeps up then I'll just go to an estate agent.

Eglinton

DublinWriter wrote: »

I'm currently selling my late Mum's house in D13 on daft with only one pic, so I guess I'm guilty as charged.

However, my reasoning for doing this was that I stripped the insides of the house out and I priced to sell accordingly.

Maybe it's the time of year, or the economic climate, but I'm having feck-all success with daft with only a handful of views per day. If it keeps up then I'll just go to an estate agent.

I'd imagine it's the economic climate. I doubt there are too many people willing to buy a 'stripped down' house with a view to refurbishing at the moment; be they either cautious or unable to get funding.

I don't think an Estate Agent is the answer to your prayers. You could either 'sit it out' or put more effort into your ad.

Personally I would be much more inclined to search online than go to an Estate Agent. All an Estate Agent will do for you now is put it up on daft! (And take a sizable percentage :cool:)

DublinWriter

Eglinton wrote: »

I'd imagine it's the economic climate. I doubt there are too many people willing to buy a 'stripped down' house with a view to refurbishing at the moment; be they either cautious or unable to get funding.

In fairness, by stripped down, I mean bare rooms. I'm sorry, but if I could could have integrated the smell of baking bread into the pics, then I would have tried.

As I said, I priced the house to sell, another house a couple of doors up has been on the market for 100K more for the last six months without anyone biting.

An estate agent will put a sign up and stick it on myhome.ie.

jdivision

In my experience no pics= inside needs major "modernisation" as they call it

NickCarraway

DublinWriter wrote: »

In fairness, by stripped down, I mean bare rooms. I'm sorry, but if I could could have integrated the smell of baking bread into the pics, then I would have tried.

As I said, I priced the house to sell, another house a couple of doors up has been on the market for 100K more for the last six months without anyone biting.

An estate agent will put a sign up and stick it on myhome.ie.

Well perhaps not the smell of baking bread, but have you considered dressing the house? Just some furniture (borrowed or rented) and a few other minor decorative touches to suggest how the house might look when occupied. People viewing houses can be remarkably short-sighted and things have to literally be spelled out for them (this is the lounge, this is where the sofa would go etc).
Even if you don't want to do this, why not post a few pics of the bare interior. Just to say these are the rooms, note the size and light, note the ceiling are not falling down with damp, there isn't an outline of a human body on the bathroom floor etc.

Also, the smell of freshly made coffee is easier to replicate than baking bread and quite appealing (even to non-coffee drinkers).

In the current market you need to go the extra mile to sell.

miju

Have to agree with OP. Have been searching for new place to rent the last while and am moving into a new place on Monday

Funny thing is that there were ads with no pictures that where cheaper to rent than the place I finally went to view and paid deposit on that had a picture.

In my book no pics = waste of time going to view / kip

Zippie84

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MelonieHead

I agree 100%. I used to work for an estate agency and they really didn't grasp just how important the pictures are. A lot of people choose to filter their search results to only show places that include pictures.

Feathers

Yeah, you do end up wasting a lot of time otherwise. For the 1 gem that doesn't have pictures that'd you'd miss, there's 2,000 kips that'd you'd waste your time in.

Another thing that gets me - looking at houses in Maynooth: there's one that has an address of 'Kilkock, Maynooth, Co. Kildare'; another has 'Kilcloon (actualy in Meath....), Maynooth, Co. Kildare. :mad:This wrecks my head - if it's not in Maynooth they should be banned for time-wasting - if I wanted to browse places near to Maynooth, that's what I would have searched for!

Any way to report these time wasters?

MrBill

Couldn't agree more. People who fail to put up pictures on daft are among the worst scum in the world. The ones with pictures can be bad enough:

Wall to wall bathroom tiles both in and outside the bathroom! Sh1te furniture from me granny's shed!

The worst ever was when some retard posted two pictures. Both were views from the balcony.

Xiney

I just found our old apartment on there, they're using the same photos they used last year.

Which is a pity because it looks nicer now after we arranged the furniture properly and everything.

NewFrockTuesday

Ste.phen wrote: »

I thought it was 195 for sales, or 20 for rentals, and that you could leave the ad up indefinitely for that price? That's hardly a rip off considering the amounts of money involved, is it?
(Does 395 cover some special service?, I've never advertised with them myself)

I cant find it on search (lazy mood today), but I remember a thread on their pricing hikes. I think something laong the lines of pemium used to be 10 quid odd...maybe less, I cant rem, but now its jumped way up this last year. A reply was requested from them but was never forthcoming explaining why it was hiked so much.

oceanclub

As someone else has said; if they don't put pics up in this age of cheap digital camera, it's obvious they have something to hide, so think of it as a handy filter.

P.

the_syco

oceanclub wrote: »

As someone else has said; if they don't put pics up in this age of cheap digital camera, it's obvious they have something to hide, so think of it as a handy filter.

P.

If looking for places for people, I use the "photos only" filter, as I don't see why someone should have to walk across the city to find out how crap the place is.