Make sure you read the fine print carefully

Nathan says:

02:31pm | 07/04/10

Ok, Whats wrong with it????

Julia says:

03:46pm | 07/04/10

Cripes I hope you tell us. Because I’ve found the mistakes but I can’t work out if there’s something about the wording which means the value of the house isn’t factored into the price.

SkepDad says:

04:56pm | 07/04/10

2 bedrooms 6 car spaces

Peter says:

05:39pm | 07/04/10

You’d hardly brag about the house would you? I think the vendor would like to sell his/her property…

Sam Chowder says:

08:35pm | 07/04/10

“It’s not often that you’ll find humour in real estate”  i beg to differ Lucy, I am always amused by Real Estate agents ads and the free giveaway is eagerly awaited for a good chortle.  Some sellers do not want any jovial banter “Serious buyers only”,  others have amazingly “Priced to sell”,  and the confused sellers that employ the services of an agent and declare “owner wants it sold”.  The positive spins on awful property are a giggle but best I have seen recently was a house were the only feature listed was an TV arial, ... still gets me.

Cly says:

10:36pm | 07/04/10

I find real estate humour to be so terribly outdated. It’s as if they’re writing for people back in the 40’s and 50’s and as bad as most of the advertising from those decades. It’s not clever, it’s irritating not to mention very ‘down the nose at us’.

Shane From Melbourne says:

12:00am | 08/04/10

They live in NSW? Could be a joke in itself…..Beats the hell out of me, I’m still trying to find an affordable cardboard box…..

Gary Cox says:

07:21am | 08/04/10

It looks like its only a two vehicle garage. Also they should be throwing in rather than throughing in. Then there’s the attempt at humour. That’s all I’ve got.

Cliff says:

09:53am | 08/04/10

The advert appears to be for garage storage space on a block close to town and a 2-bedroom cottage out of town (ie in the country).

Styles says:

12:58pm | 10/04/10

Uhhh, the joke is he’s advertising the house the wrong way around. He’s selling a garage “for car enthusiasts” with the main cottage thrown (throughn?) in as an afterthought.

philip says:

12:53pm | 10/04/10

Buggered if i can see anything funny. And real estate agents are about as funny as a bus crash anyway.

shell says:

03:57pm | 11/04/10

i beleive that Lucy Kippist is trying to point out that they are selling the shed, and you get a free cottage.  When i was a kid (so go back 20 years)  i saw an add in the hervye bay paper for a cat being sold for about $200 000 - free house and land with that cat.  I think that ad is not well written enough to be humurous.

Darryl Price says:

08:27am | 12/04/10

Yeah a nice attempt at humour, shame about the spelling errors. My all time favourite was a house in Noosa that was “the personification of style”. It must be hard to wax poetic when you don’t have the wax…

Froggy says:

02:31pm | 19/04/10

Instead of we will throw you a house,we will through you the the house,tricky dicks those country people!

Alyssa KT says:

09:14am | 20/04/10

Fascinating. What an unusual choice you’ve made expecting to amuse us…

My favourite was an ad for an apartment in Ballina with
“Owner is Moving to a Nursing Home and Will Not be Returning”
as the headline.
WTF?!

Not only is it not expected that the person who you bought your apartment from will expect it back at any time in the future, did they have to make a point that not many leave nursing homes (to live anywhere else)??

I emailed them at the time. Later I saw it on Rove’s What The?

BundyGil says:

11:16am | 20/04/10

Having looked at the picture blown up and sharpened, the only thing I can see is the spelling of ‘throw’. They have put ‘though’ which is typical for real estate agents. They’re sometimes not the sharpest knife in the block. .
There’s certainly not something for nothing that I can see, or maybe I’m not the sharpest knife in the block.
If that’s it, it’s not funny.

Michelle says:

07:43pm | 21/04/10

wow comes with six cars, bargain, I’ll have it.

bazza says:

10:10pm | 24/04/10

im buying a place close to town but they are going to give me a cottage in the country aswell , good for me.

S.L says:

05:03pm | 26/04/10

Where do I sign?

shivani says:

03:00pm | 27/04/10

it means that there can be 2 people on the bed..1 person in the bath tub…and 6 people in the car…its js humour