Heres a tip for Landlords...
wanting to rent their accomadation. Im looking to move in December 2011, and i am looking for a new apartment in a nice area, whilst this is not a post to ask landlords to contact me, i would greatly appreciate if after building the apartment and going through all the planning applications etc at least put some decent ledgeable photos on here to show your property in all its glory. If you look at Just Landed website, the majority do show photos of the property and a description of the area along with a generic map. This may greatly improve your chances of renting the said property.
I would suggest that contact a reliable Real Estate company you can see them in Newspapers here in Doha contact them then just give them your story so that they may help you in locating a home for rent and instead of pictures they will show you around on what properties they manage.. at least on that you can see not the picture but the real property instead.
I know what you mean, I say they should even make it mandatory to put up pics in the classifieds for stuff they're selling. But the downside here is, people show great pics, but when you actually see the real thing it's a bummer :-(
please read my initial post again, all i am requesting is that there is 4 or 5 photos giving an indication of the condition, a small map (i belive google maps do this now) perhaps even a shot of the outside so if you even get to the stage of viewing you should be able to find the place, or is "near Corniche" or Ramada good enough directions for you...
I'd say photoshop does wonders to fool the public too. Or why even bother about photoshop when you can enhance pics using the software provided by your laptop nowdays :-(
Just basic common sense one would hope would prevail, look why would anyone waste their time ringing up someone who has an apartment for rent that is "nice" somewhere in Qatar who hasnt seen at least the basic standard via some decent photos of the place, or are QL now charging per pixel for uploading photos...
would you like a nice model showing off her "property" in those pics too? :-P
lol at s_isale - its like a room in a room- and it's crazy! :P
are you looking for a an apartment that is partitioned, then half partitioned and then partitioned partition?