So funny. That is one way to get your listing passed around!

I guess whoever staged it decided to go with the red/white/blue theme and there is a comedian in the bunch.

But what is this photo of? Creepy

That was interesting. The 'dog' showed up in 9 of the pics for that home in the link.

I looked at the listing - it's peculiar in many ways and needs much more help than a silly animal costume in photos can provide. It's unusual for listing photos to show oddball features or damage seemingly needing repair.

My favorite miscues in the video tour were the gorgeous view out the window showing a smokestack or power plant a block or so away, the stall shower with the inward opening door (likely not code compliant, how do you get in?) with damaged tile poorly repaired and the moldy/rotten window frame in the shower. And the stairway with no hand rail.

Elizabeth it's a bomb shelter! probably where the current owners kept their victims.

Cute & creative!

Tornado shelter?

Cute. But when the time comes for me to sell, I hope my house can speak for itself.

The whole roll of film looks like the two dudes hired for the job got high and took the pictures. Really bad shots, and the dog head is just ridiculous.

Maybe they did not want you to see the flaws and tried humor for distraction.

what is a 0.75 bathroom? I've heard full and half. Three quarters? Is that a thing?

So it's a full bath squashed into a half bath. Got it.

We don't use that 3/4 bathroom nomenclature in my neck of the woods, but it means a bath with a shower (no tub), sink and toilet. In my area that would be a full bath and indicated that way on the listing. Apparently there are areas where it's not a full bath unless you have both a tub and shower + toilet and sink.

Not a full bath squashed into a half bath.

It is a full size bathroom but has 3 pieces (shower, sink and toilet) rather than 4 pieces (tub, shower, sink and toilet). The size is the same size as a normal bathroom. Or can be any size. The .75 bath doesn't indicate size, but number of fixtures.

"Maybe they did not want you to see the flaws and tried humor for distraction."

I think a more likely explanation is that the person holding the camera was inept, hadn't first reviewed the intended "scenes" looking for what to avoid, and then wasn't smart enough when looking through the end result to realize how the video showed problems that could have been left out entirely with more careful shooting.

It's a problematic house that looks to me to have been built as a 1 story, 2 bedroom house (one bedroom quite small) to which someone similarly ineptly, and perhaps as a DIY project, had built out the attic to add rooms.

I know, I'm way off the topic of showing a listing with such humorous photos but that place is a mess. For me, it's like trying to "un-see" something you'd rather forget, I'm not good at doing that and images linger in my mind.

I think the "dog" is cute and funny, but not necessary..The person wearing the dog head is either a very tiny person, or a child. I've never seen anything like that in a listing before. Even though I wouldn't want a frame house that old, it appears to be in good condition.

That storm shelter is creepy !

re: the flaws. yes, it needs some work, but the sad thing is, it would probably fetch $800K or higher in a middle class Seattle neighborhood. in that condition. the market is insane over here.

patriciae_gw -- it's a bomb shelter. we don't get tornadoes here. Bremerton is a military town, so I wonder if that had a little bit to do with it? bomb shelters are not common here.

Hehehe, someone did that last year with bigfoot:

https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/11/15/bigfoot-sighting-ravenna-home-listing-includes-cameos-mythical-missing-link/

I didnt realize where it was. The area certainly doesnt get tornados you would need to shelter from. Creepy is the word.

A realtor of luxury condo ad a large elephant posed in various rooms. I tried o google but I couldn't find it.

I believe the "Bomb Shelter" is a root cellar. There was a house listed in my home town that had a very similar room built in to the hillside and it was built from a plan from maybe Popular Mechanics???

Fun shots *might* help for selling a special property. This house was drop dead gorgeous, but basically had no parking. So whoever bought it must have been open to something other than what most of us consider normal. They got a good price!

nickel_kg parking barely stops people in Seattle. a house in my neighborhood was just flipped and sold for 1.25 million. it has a dirt driveway but no garage (and no room to build one). may I add that this neighborhood is not even considered an expensive part of town? yikes.

ILoveMod, wow, that's great if you're already in, but intimidating if you're not. I won't say how much the T Rex house sold for, it would make too many of y'all cry! lol.

nickel_kg either way, I love all things T Rex! what city is that house in?

our neighborhood is crazy. luckily we got in three years ago and even at that time our house felt expensive. it's supposedly worth $150K more now (I know I can't put a ton of stock into that). a lot of my friends thought of this as the "fallback neighborhood", but pretty much missed the boat and are priced out at this point. $600K is not a healthy enough budget to get you anything around here. I'm not happy about it. I want to see improvements to what was a rough area, but I don't want to see regular people having to move to the next town over just because it's so crazy unaffordable here.

If it is a bomb shelter, it could have been built in the 1950's or so, when we all afraid we would be bombed. I remember the bomb drills at school where we had to get under our desks.

It started life as a bomb shelter. With the passage of time, it is now a wine cellar. Making lemonade, or wine, instead of lemons, or vinegar!

I think it's a child hiding under the doggy head, she is barely tall enough to cook. She did a good job though. I'd love to see cute babies in house photos. :-)

ILoveMod, it's in Roanoke, VA. Interesting town, it "hit the big time" in the late 1800's when the rail road came through and offered to make its headquarters there IF it would change its name. So it went from "Big LIck" to "Roanoke." Total plug for the city planners and the care they take: Roanoke Residential Pattern Book

If you look at the picture where the person is sitting at a desk with a phone up to the ear I think you will find that the hand appears to be that of an adult. Perhaps even an older adult in that picture. Some of the pictures the hands are completely different and do appear to be that of an older child.

Made me laugh!!!

This house looks quite creepy and it is in need of much work. Those blistered walls and rotten window frames did get caught in the lights of the camera. And, it is so piece meal.

That "bomb shelter" looks more like a crypt. Creepy!

All they need is a creepy clown to show up!

She did not take us to the scary, probably, crawl space where the hot water heater and furnace are. Probably for good reason. They are probably super creepy!!!

The creepy dog costume did not help to dispel the creep factor, quite the opposite.

The house looks good compared to some of the houses in the old part of the town next to where I live. Old river town dating back to the late 1850's. Tiny rooms, tiny horrible kitchens, musty old wallpaper, narrow & steep staircases.

I think that concrete structure is a WWII era bomb shelter. The West Coast location and the concrete 'benches' cause me to think that. Japanese bombs did fall on Oregon. https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/threats-bombs.aspx

President Kennedy urged citizens to build bomb (fallout) shelters later on in the early 1960's when the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in October 1962.

"I think that concrete structure is a WWII era bomb shelter. The West Coast location and the concrete 'benches' cause me to think that."

No, I don't think so. I never heard of such things around here.

Materials that would have been used to build a structure like that during the war years were earmarked for the military and war production uses and would not have been available for unnecessary civilian use. The few balloon-carried bombs that made it across the Pacific were a fluke. There was never a real risk of Japanese air attacks on the West Coast.

Yes, given 20/20 hindsight, Japanese bombs on the mainland proved to be a fluke. Rewind to June 1942 though and bombs have landed not far from where you live (155 miles by car, closer by crow), your house is on the approach to Boeing, a large part of the fleet that would defend you is rusting away at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, what would you be thinking?

Assuming the cellar was scratch built 1942ish, the only problem with material to build it would have been reinforcement for the concrete. Re-bar, mesh. Wood for the forms, cement, sand, aggregate, not so much. The first scrap metal drives started that summer (1942). If the needed steel for reinforcement wasn't obtainable at the hdwe store, it was probably still scrounge-able. Or substitutes like old fencing, bedsprings...

OTOH, the structure could well predate WWII by a couple of decades, original intent as a root cellar. (Assumption that ground water level is too high for basements to exist in that locale.) And then re-purposed as dual purpose bomb shelter/ root cellar with the addition of the concrete benches. I do not think that the benches would not have been original to a root cellar. Accessibility, the need for good air circulation would all seem to preclude the fixed benches.

For sure, the latest use is tool shed because of the spark plug wrench laying on the bench.

Interesting puzzle. Guessing that the creepy factor some people are experiencing could owe partly to the tomb-stone shaped interior?

This is interesting--about how the Boeing factory was camo'ed:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/from-the-archives-how-boeing-hid-its-bomber-factory/

Another factor--if you lived in Bremerton at that time, you probably would have been thinking not just about the Japanese approach but also about the double whammy of being in the path of the defense, too.

If you rewind to June 1942, by then the Japanese navy had lost aircraft carriers while suffering two major naval defeats. It wouldn't be seen again in the Eastern Pacific. No hindsight needed, that was known at the time. Just a short 6 months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the West Coast was mostly out of jeopardy of direct attack.