Real estate photos have some bad incentives.

It's a lot of work to visit a house you might want to buy, but there's about 0 percent chance you buy one without doing so. So the agent must optimize to get you there, essentially by lying with photographs.

This sets wrong expectations, and it's always disappointing to visit because it's never what the photos told you.

You get used to it as a buyer, but setting you up with wrong expectations isn't really what the buyer or seller wants.

Some of these aren't really bad photos, they're just a hard thing to sell. And some others are bad only because they're too honest.

Many are just bad of course. But the fire one is brilliant.