Tamara Tattles was the first to report that Phaedra Parks is moving into her newest home. Neighbors reported that the move occurred car load by car load until Apollo’s yellow moving truck appeared for the furniture. I found that very odd. I get that she was only moving two miles away, but I would still think professional movers would be needed to transport everything safely. Next Tamara Tattles exclusively reported that the house was up for sale, and that an under contract sign had been placed on the house. It turns out that either the agent didn’t know the Under Contract sign was on the house when she put it up, or that the contract negotiations fell through. After the information I just received, I’m leading to the former option as the under contract sign was removed the same day it went up.
Tamara Tattles spies have sent us exclusive photos from Phaedra’s open house held yesterday. All I could think of when looking at what was sent was Phaedra’s friend Dwight, party planner for Phaedra’s sip and see saying, “How dreadful.” I literally did not know how to label half of the photos and kept emailing the spies asking. “What is that?” only to get responses like, “Exactly. We don’t know either.” The spies for this post were people who were actual potential buyers who like the street and wanted to like the house.
Let’s start with the interior shots. Overall, the spies informed me that the house was dirty and in no condition to be shown. This actually surprised me. I assumed that the interior would be repainted if necessary and perhaps even staged. In Atlanta, a $1.5 million dollar listing is a high-end home.
My spies were gobsmacked by the bathrooms and the boys rooms. The bathrooms and the boys rooms have all of these disks stuck on the garishly painted walls. I asked what the disks were, just decoration or is there something I’m missing here. The response was, “We have no idea!” There were concerns that whatever they are may have damaged the walls and that covering the paint, especially the red will be very difficult.
Ayden’s bathroom will be easier to fix. Apparently, there are no disks in his bathroom. That Prince Ayden sign appears to be on some sort of pole apparatus. I do not understand.
The wall on the left is either magnetic paint or a felt board wall. Who has a ladder in the house for an open house? Is that what the boys use to hang the letters? Why are the numbers and letters still there? Is that a pile of clothes? Why did they not repaint the damn walls? I do not understand.
This is a red closet door again with the dots. Maybe they are magnetic too? Has anyone seen this before? If they are magnetic, why wouldn’t the selling agent take them off and throw them into a bucket? I do not understand.
The over all impression of the interior is that aside from the lack of basic cleaning and the much needed painting, there was every design genre in the book mixed together… Venetian, Asian, craftsman tile… it’s a mashup of everything. Phaedra’s room still has a headboard mounted to the wall. There’s a dehumidifier in an alcove space – which is super odd. Dehumidifiers generally go in the lower levels where there is water (red flag).
No one seemed to actually get the point of this. Perhaps it is a place to watch the boys swim out of the sun. There appears to be a grill and a beer fridge. So there is that.
Our potential buyer’s assessment was, “It was horrible! She wants $1.49 mil. Nothing is show/open house ready! There are plants growing out of the gutters, the pool is nice but it has not been maintained. It’s actually small square footage, 3 bedrooms upstairs, master on main, and 2 half baths on main. 2 car small garage. Overall she did nothing to make it look great to sell, there’s stuff in the garage still. And I got bit by mosquitoes!”
So it sounds like a no for our buyer. Which is sad because they really like the cul-de-sac. The neighbors really want someone in there that they like, as it is a tight-knit little group. But until they get the place ready to show, they are not going to have anyone wanting to move in there.
I thought Phaedra was smarter than this. I don’t understand the agent having an open house before it was cleaned and painted.
Did I mention I do not understand?
Wish there were lots more photos! This was entertaining!
The Prince Ayden “sign” appears to be one of those upholstered things you see over the tops of windows, the name of which flew out of my head.
Are those more disks on the ceiling of the second bedroom?
Cornice?
valance
That’s it, I think, a cornice. Thanks for filling that particular blank.
Cornice, yes. Made of wood, covered with batting then the fabric. Everything is stapled down on the back. They are mounted above a window by screws.
Hides top of curtains and rods. My Mom lined them and she had built-in soft lighting on the top of cornices.
I’m thinking it was a prop from a tacky party she had, hence the poles on the “cornice board”.
My family have had 7 corporate.moves. Between buyin . & selling homes I’ve never seen anything like this. It may just be my experience, but no Realtor I know would risk their reputation by showing a messy open house. That house is disgusting. All I can think is how dirty, germy and buggy it probably is. Ewwwwww
I agree 100%, Joan. My family has made lots of moves too, and the only time I’ve ever seen anything like that was on a foreclosure. It doesn’t make good sense but maybe that’s the point. Who knows what kind of tricks she’s got up her sleeve? I think there more going on with all this than we are aware. Something just doesn’t feel right. I’m not surprised it wasn’t clean though.
I know exactly what she’s doing, she’s going to make sure that the house looks like crap and won’t sell for a decent amount of money, so she tells Apollo that she will make an offer personally on the house, say $5000 above this shit offer she’s going to get from the people that actually look at it. She’ll give him exactly HALF of that money-it’s community property remember-and then she’s going to fix it up, de-scum the pool, etc and get a GOOD offer on that house that she will then own 100% and take the $$ and run.
Watch this happen.
I don’t know if it matters, but that house is in Phaedra’s name only. Things were going south with Apollo and Phaedra at this time. Phaedra was well aware of the side piece Apollo had in Philly when this was going on.
Doesn’t matter, if she bought it during the marriage, and there is no prenup stating otherwise, its community property.
Was this the house that we saw on RHOA a few seasons ago? Can’t believe it. Cheap toilet in the DYLAN bath. If the kid grows up being afraid of clowns I will now understand. WHy would she throw an open house? The fake Phaedra airing her house like this?? I am very confused?
This is the house she lived in on RHOA until moving just recently. Click the links above.
The discs ib the walls remind of painted old 45 rpm records!
Those are plexi glass that has an adhesive on the back. They come in all kinds of tacky designs: groovy flowers, peace signs, butterfly’s, etcetera. They come off fairly easily but can damage the underlying drywall slightly, nothing major though. As a Realtor, I would have not had an open house or even put pics on MLS until painted (at least the rooms with crazy paint jobs) and all her personal items were removed or the house was left with furniture to stage it, not just after thoughts left behind. Unless that house is priced below the neighborhood market value, they are setting themselves up to get low ball offers. At that price point and the home being market priced, buyers don’t want to have to do anything other than cosmetic work and even that can turn them off as they want move-in-ready. I think that weird bar area outside is supposed to be an outdoor kitchen. That’s my guess. Clearly it’s a DIY job. Those are fine when you plan to keep your home but if you plan on reselling, professional work is key.
Why would anyone put a kids name on a bathroom wall?
Hey be nice. Phaedra got some of her better dates off her name being on men’s room walls.
That’s just a mean nasty comment.
I know, the poor bathroom walls.
There are some toxic, mean, nasty, and incredibly petty people in this World. The one commenting above sounds like a cast member from the show, or a stan of one of the cast members.
Hey Valley View, I just snorted so loud at your reply to my comment, I woke my husband up….
HAHAHAHAH! good one! and the truth…
why would anyone put a kids name on a wall that is going to be put on the internet? I see this with many homes listed, they keep the kids’ names on the wall, It seems so unsafe, the address is out there, now everyone knows that “Evie” sleeps in the front bedroom! I can never understand it.
Okay. I have no idea what the market is like in Atlanta. Perhaps she underpriced the house hoping someone would look at its bones and take on a reno?
I have no idea what those discs are. I thought maybe they were magnetic at first, but they’re everywhere so I dunno.
The dry stack stone is a disaster waiting to happen. With no mortar the dry stack technique is dependent on the meticulous staggering of the stone. Not happening here.
The mystery cornice rod is, I think. Just the sun shining through a sliver where drapes are slightly askew at the edge.
The attempts at an outdoor kitchen was a good idea except it’s so narrow only one person could be in there at a time, and there’s more of the scary stone. The tile on the wall there seems to be set at varying levels leaving some ends kind of sticking out farther than others. An attempt at rustic?
The curb appeal is wonderful on this house, it’s a shame about the inside. Again, my only conclusion is she wants to unload fast to a rehabber below market value.
What is the square footage? If you divide price by square footage to get price per ft and then looked at that figure in the comparable, we’d better be able to figure if she’s under or overpriced.
That is the most poorly designed “outdoor kitchen” I have ever seen. The staggered wall is a look, I’ve seen that before. I’m thinking it may have been original, done by the builder of landscaper, and the rest of it added on.
If it is all Apollo’s handiwork…it suggests an industriousness I wouldn’t have thought him capable of.
The house is OVER priced by about 400-500K if it was in PRISTINE condition.
Apollo did in fact do all of the stonework himself.
The stone wall is huge and high. That’s a big job. Whodda thunk he would work that hard?
TT, do you know the square footage? Curious.
its 4453 sq ft according to realtor. com
Oddly, the new listing DOES NOT DISCLOSE the square footage. But it’s 4229 sq ft. I looked at the comps and the larger houses are between 1.2 and 1.4.
Here is my post from when she bought the house. This was shortly have she had the spare. When his side piece was mad because she felt it was proof they were still hooking up.
http://tamaratattles.com/2014/01/25/this-is-phaedras-house-in-her-name-only/
they must have done wonders with the listing photos because the house looks amazing in those….they also really dont show the kids rooms though so that could be partially why…shocking they would show the house dirty like that
Someone is tightfisted and / or needing quick cash. Not paying for a moving professional, doing it by car instead, not cleaning or staging the house, it all screams Sell Fast. Which as a buyer means I’d low ball like crazy. Isn’t the asking price a ridiculous twice what she paid just a few years ago?
At first those discs all looked to be at Phaedra’s height, which I thought it was so she could alway see herself. But maybe she read about the Feng Shui use of mirrors to push energy out of certain spaces and she ran amok using them everywhere. Cheap cheap cheap. But then that is obvious with her –
Maybe she’s not as smart as she would want people to think, or she thinks.
Hideous.
I am surprised as the rooms shown on the show looked gorgeous. It was mostly scenes with Porsha but it looked great. I guess the boys bathrooms we’re not shown, but I recall her in a bedroom reading to one of her son’s. Maybe that was her bedroom, I don’t remember. The rooms shown here sure don’t match what we saw on Housewives. Strange.
Phaedra is my favorite housewife in Atlanta. I think she does well. She has two smart well
Mannered little boys. She’s doing it all on her own. I wonder how many of you would do in her position. True the house shouldn’t be listed before being staged. But, it’s not filthy at all. It just need cleaned after the move and repainted. Anytime you move, the house looks undone. After you move you come back and have it cleaned and painted people.
So you agree, the house was dirty and not ready to be shown.
I agree Carol.
Also plenty of homes are, have been, and will be listed on the market and shown without professional staging. Does staging help- sure it can definitely help. But it is not always necessary. Were the boys’ rooms…the only rooms photographed, not clean enough? Maybe so. Three things -a person who lives in filth and that’s their norm, their entire, or most of their home is typically reflective of just that.
Also, bathrooms belonging to little boys, are rarely if ever clean enough for most! Lastly- had the responsibility of a deep cleaning after her move been contracted with/delegated to someone else…a professional who was not as thorough with the boys’ quarters as they should have been?
The discs look like some kind of stimuli for the boys, kind of like those weird looking mobiles you see over cribs. Some of them are mirrors, the rest are bright colors. She probably way overpaid for them too.
The move thing is bizarre. Even when I moved literally across the street, I had movers to get the furniture out!
My personal theory about the listing price is that she’s hoping the bank will take it so that she can claim it as a loss when the divorce attorneys come for her assets. She probably HELOC’d it to buy the new place.
The mirrored discs have adhesive type tape on the backs. I saw them at our Hobby Lobby a few years ago…right around the time painted letters were a thing. Out of place for a high end home IMO.
Really guys? Those are just cds. To me it looks as though she had a theme for kids room. it certainly seems too DIY for someone who claims to have all this money. But i see a theme of circles throughout his room and bathroom in different sizes. its a kids room and its a cute idea to add texture and i like the ideas she had even with the felt. If that was my room as a kid i would of loved it. Its not the first kids room to have their name on the wall, BUT its probably the first to not cover it up with some classic white paint after they left! I think seeing the house like this and seeing the types of movers she had really adds up to her doing this in a rush and on a tight budget.
They are not CDs. The prospective buyer said they were random circles in the boys room on the walls on the ceiling and in Dylan’s bathroom. It’s weird.
I am thinking she just wanted the hell out of that house so she could get on with her life. It’s also possible she hates that house because of the bad times and couldn’t care less what it looks like. It’s better then burning it to the ground but also not smart financially. Maybe apollo did all that hideous decor ….
maybe the woman is depressed from losing her peach before selling a house I would of cleaned or hired someone to clean for me her house just shows how messy she really is…
Garish as it may be, it doesn’t look dirty. Think the circles are mirrors, they look like the stick on ones that can be bought in ikea.
Wonder how she can afford that new house without that rhoa check anymore. I guess that stolen money she stash some away
I think Phaedra believes that because the house was a RHOA house, the list price can be jacked up and someone will pay.