A realtor was involved in selling me my home, which is not a house. :smack::rolleyes:
Around these parts, they sell neither houses nor homes. They sell lifestyles.
Not only that – it seems deliberately unclear. They could be trying to trick you into coming to look at a house that is smaller than what you want. Saying “3 bedrooms” is clear, and everyone knows what it means. But they didn’t say that. Most bedrooms now have a double bed, so that’s 2 sleeps. Add a kids rppm for 3 sleeps. Heck, put bunk beds in the kids room and you have ‘4 sleeps’!
Only an unscrupulous real estate salesperson would do that, though – anybody ever heard of one of them?
The last time I sold a house, the sale was contingent on me leaving the fireplace tools. These weren’t attached, they just sat next to the fireplace. Umm, ok? You want the papertowel holder too?
While house hunting, I’ve had a realtor comment that we were unusual, because we were looking at cracks in corners near the doors, waterstains in the basement, and sags in the roofline, but not commenting on the new paint.
Does anyone have an actual example of this? I can’t find anything on Google other than “sleeps 4”, etc. I don’t see anything described as cooks and washes.
That’s pretty common for camping equipment. It has room for 4 people to sleep, but it does not have 4 bedrooms.
Not so common for housing, though …
Master Bedroom and Master Bath are out, too. Now they are called “owner’s bedroom” and owner’s bath. More politically correct.
Nay, the one’s I’ve been looking at say ‘owner’s retreat’. As if fighting the damn hun all day in downtown Charleston is so exhausting I have to tell a corporal to hold them off while I catch forty winks or something.
I deal with a reasonable amount of real estate copy in my job and while I haven’t seen anything quite as bad as the OP describes, I have had to explain that a “robe” is an item of clothing and a “wardrobe” is the fixture into which a robe (or other clothing) goes.
Because if you’re spending $500,000 on a house, a couple of items from the Arthur Dent or Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski daywear collections aren’t going to sweeten the deal, but knowing you’ve got a walk-in clothing storage space or somewhere to hang your wearables instead of leaving them on the floor is an important consideration.
What is driving me crazy is this local commercial for new homes that implies that only an idiot would buy a “used home”. Because, you know, once they’re used, the walls don’t hold up so well anymore.
A related complaint (of which I was reminded by following a link from Cafe Society to a critique of ROTJ) is when film critics talk about “the big reveal”. We already have a perfectly good noun form (revelation), so is this usage, like “sleeps and washes”, just meant to grab our attention (per post #2 above)?
At least they aren’t referring to the bathrooms as “craps.”
It seems completely unsurprising to me that people think like this unconsciously. I doubt many do so consciously, but it’s the unconscious stuff that makes most people buy things.
Which reminds me of the workplace habit of saying “invite” instead of invitation.
“I’ll send you the invite.” Bugs the hell out of me for some unknown reason.
Wouldn’t a simple explanation be trying to save money by limiting the length of the listing?
In the Denver area, listings will give the total number of bedrooms and baths INCLUDING the basement ones, then will mention that x number of bedrooms (in the basement) are nonconforming (no egress through the basement window). This is unlike any other market I’ve seen (maybe it’s a Western thing); in the East it’s a violation to count basement bedrooms and baths in the total count on the top of the listing.
My guess is it’s a way to avoid use of the word “nonconforming” by using non-standard language.
Also common and irritating is when “fail” is used as a noun, especially in such constructs as “epic fail”. But this expression is more often spoken than written, so it’s not as jarring as the real estate ad in the OP.
Line of the day. 
My guess: Chinglish.
I found one of those listings in Denver, and … well, check it out for yourself.
Second level clean? 2-car park? Well-designed cook? And a create? I don’t think they’re trying to appeal to hipper-than-hip buyers, especially considering it’s a house in a second ring suburb.
Around where I live, real estate listings for houses in one very crunchy neighborhood will often call backyards “gardens”, and there will commonly be more photos of the yard than the interior.
It sounds like “second-level clean” means a washer-dryer upstairs, “well-designed cook” obviously means the kitchen, “comfortable watch” may mean the TV room? but I don’t know what they mean by “a create”.