This was sent in by a Lovely Listing reader: A Realtor who puts a fuzzy plush kitteh into all of her pictures. Here’s to you, Crazy Cat Realtor!
Hi. Sara here. Everything above the photos was written by my LOLcat overlords. Here are two indications it was done by them: 1) the word “kitteh,” and 2) ohmygod why did I go see New Moon last night with a rowdy bunch of drinkers ooooh my head ooooh my eyes ooooh my soul if you think I have the wherewithal to write my own post today you are so very mistaken.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go wash the shame out of my hair in my nice kitteh-free shower.
team Charlie all the way
Found By: Jeanne
Loveliest comment, by BTW: It’s more like a secret blog about kitty’s adventures in real estate.
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Here in Norway a firm puts a lime in all the pictures no matter if the house is nice or ugly. That is their new marketing strategy! And we frown upon it in our facebook-group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/group.php?gid=2297824567
Oh my goodness. I’m going to be stealing photos from you left and right…
I hadn’t noticed that until I read your post and now I see limes everywhere on finn.no!
For those of you who are curious, here is an example:
http://www.finn.no/finn/realestate/object?finnkode=19935048
A quick Google search revealed that the real estate agent firm has “LItt MEr” (a little more/extra) as their slogan. A customer said that the lime they used in her apartment was mouldy! Perhaps they only have one lime … If _I_ was paying thousands of dollars to a real estate agent I would at least demand a new and fresh lime!
That’s AWESOME
It’s like Where’s Waldo with fruit!
That is just weird, I wouldn’t hire this person to list my $500,000 + apartment!
You wouldn’t have to. You have an apartment.
I love it! I’d buy from her if I had money and wanted to live in Brooklyn…
Noooo, I asked you to really show off the plush kitCHEN! KITCHEN!
I actually like that. It helps give a sense of scale to rooms, which is probably why she started doing it.
Plus, it’s kind of nutty in a nonthreatening way, which I also like. I think it would freak me out a bit more if they were all different stuffed animals, simply because the thought of the agent busting in with a sack of stuffed animals is a little too nutty.
But yeah, maybe I’m easily charmed, and not bothered much by eccentricity. The ploy works with me, I’m finding it really easy to recall the pictures of the listing because of that stuffed cat, which is why she does it, I’m sure.
We bought a new house in June, and anyone who has looked at listings knows they all start to blend together in your mind when you are looking. That’s one way to keep her images from blending.
Plus, it’s just a little nuts
Well, I think putting the plush cat on a window sill or a kitchen cabinet is one thing. Sneaking out of the shower stall is something else entirely.
What were those books I read as a kid when I was trying to learn French that had a wee yellow duckie somewhere in the crowd? An ornithological pre-Wally of sorts…
Yeah. Crazy Cat Realtor mibbe had that book too.
I remember those! It was in the books “1000 French words” or something like that? I do definitely remember it. But you never learn the word canard, so you couldn’t say, “Ou-est le canard jaun?” “Il est dans la salle de bain!”
All the Usborn books I had when I was little had pictures with little yellow ducks in, the artist always had one somewhere. Fantastic pictures. The artist, Stephen Cartwright died a while ago http://www.usborneonline.com/cartwright.htm
I’m so sad about that. Thank you for telling me who it was that brought so much duck-embellished joy to learning.
I like it! Maybe this kitteh belongs to the gnome in Amelie Poulain movie…
It’s more like a secret blog about kitty’s adventures in real estate.
I haven’t laughed as much at a listing photo in a long time as I laughed at the kitteh in the shower stall. Bwaha!
I agree that it gives a sense of scale. Also a lot less annoying than big, honking watermarks that others use to prevent people from stealing their images.
My only question is, does the stuffed animal come with the house? Or do I have to pay an extra $8.60?
See, in my opinion this is makes a nice innocent looking stuffed animal into something horror movie-esque. I look at these pictures and feel like that creepy kitty is stalking me. Oh, and just in case you wondered I am very much a cat person.
I like it – “The adventures of little kitty”
Little kitty was tired. After having her dinner, little kitty wanted somewhere to sleep. She tried sleeping on the windowsill – that was too noisy. She tried sleeping on the kitchen counter – that was too bright. She tried sleeping beside the cooker – that was too hot. She tried sleeping beside the freezer – that was too cold. She tried sleeping on the bathroom sink – that was too close to the wall. She tried sleeping in the bathroom sink – that was too small. She tried sleeping in the shower – that was too wet. She tried sleeping in the sunbeam – that was just right.
Get the rights to those photos and you’ve got yourself a publishable children’s book!
I think it’s a joke. They wanted to make their listing memorable. Ditto the creepy clown dummies in an otherwise normal suburban house that was posted a few months ago.
Wow, they’re asking nearly a million dollars for an apartment. Then after you’ve laid down a cool mill, they’ll let you live there if you just cough up another $1400 per month for “maintenance.”
Brooklyn’s come a long way since the Sweathogs, huh?
Not just any apartment – an apartment with an affordable modernist IKEA kitchen!
Call me crazy too, but I love it. I think it’s a quirky way to put your signature on your listings. Couple it with an effective campaign and it could solidly build brand recognition.
I *love* this!!!!! Up with Kittehs!!!!!
It’s a little crazy, but cute crazy, so that’s cool. Now, if she was putting those horrible faceless life size dolls against all the walls, *that* would be something else entirely.
Please don’t remind me of those! The therapy bills are already piling up as it is…! :-Z
Gotta get a Gund™!
Judging scale of room requires knowledge of scale of kitteh. It could be one huge kitteh. I think it’s cute, though.
And may I just say, I love that bathroom.
I. so. love. this. site.
does this place come with Shelon Cooper?
*sings*
“soft kitty warm kitty little ball of fur.
happy kitty sleepy kitty purr purr purr.”
I know! Let’s sing it as a round!
This is awesome! I love it!
“Silly kitteh… sneaking into the shower.”
Somebody let the cat out of the shower! The meowing is driving me insane!
If the realtor’s name is Katherine (nickname Kat,Kitty, or something along those lines), then this is a great way to keep the listing connected to the realtor in potential buyers’ minds!
If her name is Robin, however…hmm.
I can’t help it, but it reminds me of my own stuffed animal project.
The Dharma Bear Initiative.
Part 1
http://dharmabearinitiative.webs.com/index.htm
Part 2
http://dharmabearinitiative2.webs.com/index.htm
What weirds me out most, is that, although this realtor is in Brooklyn, she uses cropped a picture of the houses at Alamo Square in San Francisco at the top of every web page.
http://www.arlenegreendlinger.com/266/images/motif01.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Painted_Ladies.jpg
Kitteh is much cheaper than hiring a model to smile and extend her arm.
Actually I think it’s kind of a cute and clever gimmick.
Same concept, different prop (this guy is a very well-known realtor for the houseboat community in Seattle):
http://www.duckin.com/
One of the other listings on the site has an apartment with “accidental baby space” that can also be used as an office!!!
I thought the wording was great. So useful…
You should really put your awesome-licious Photoshop skills to work for the Crazy Cat Realtor Lady and help her out with kitteh placement in her Italy! segment. Just sayin’.