Deceptive Descriptions (Listing Fails)

As #houseporn fiends and real estate junkies, there's nothing we love more than poring through fabulous home listings -- except maybe sorting through the tragically un-fabulous ones. They'll definitely make you laugh, and some of them could make you cry. Every week, AOL Real Estate brings you the sorriest listings that we could find on the Internet to show you what you should never do when posting your home online. We very appropriately call it #listingfail.

This week's theme: Deceptive Descriptions.

A Dream Country Mountain Home

"If you've ever had dreams of a country MOUNTAIN home," this Franklin, N.C., listing says, "check this out!" Well, we don't know about you, but our dreams of a country mountain home generally don't involve a decrepit, falling-to-pieces old barn in the middle of the sticks. The listing does, however, provide some of the idyllic scenes you could expect to see in the mountains -- which unfortunately don't deflect from the fact that this supposed country mountain home of your dreams looks more like a country mountain nightmare.

"No expense spared"

"SELLER SPARED NO EXPENSE WITH THIS INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION," this Chicago, Ill. listing gushes. No expense? The home has boarded-up windows and old-looking, dirt-colored carpet. And if this is the seller's idea of an "INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION" then we'd hate to see those "before" pictures...

A "Glamorous" Bathroom

We've seen our fair share of "glamorous" bathrooms before, but unfortunately, unlike its listing deceptively promises, the bathroom of this San Antonio, Texas, home is not one of them. In fact, it looks about as un-glamorous and average as they come.

"Mind Blowing Studio" in "Mind Numbing Location"

Sellers and Realtors: if there's anything to learn from this week's #listingfail installment, it's to please cull the superlatives. Particularly when they are downright misleading. Exhibit A: this shoebox-like studio in Manhattan's Lower East Side. "Mind Blowing" is certainly not the term we'd use to describe this tiny and unremarkable spot. And while the location's OK -- if you like souvenir shops and grimy Chinese restaurants -- we wouldn't call it "mind numbing" (what does that even mean?!).

Click on the gallery below for more (hilariously) deceptive #listingfails.

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