It’s one thing for a listing to have no photos or even just crappy photos, it’s another thing entirely to have a purposefully misleading photo, even if there’s a disclaimer burier somewhere. This is the second time in two weeks that we’ve clicked on a Bond NY listing in the NY Times only to discover that the photo was bogus. The first time was May 3rd’s Condo of the Day, a gut reno on Dikeman; today’s listing is for some new carriage houses in Red Hook. The photo above, which looks more like Beacon Hill in Boston than Red Hook, is used to promote the listing. We’re not sure what the REBNY guidelines are on this, but it must violate at least the spirit, if not the letter, of its code of conduct. This is the kind of thing that gives brokers a bad name and should stop. When will brokers learn that this is the kind of thing that destroys a firm’s credibility?
Beautiful New Carriage Houses [Bond NY]