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To find out an expert’s take on these incredibly weird houses, Bored Panda reached out to Philippa Main, a licensed Tampa Bay Realtor® at Your Main Agent. Philippa went viral not so long ago for her hilarious house listing for “The Worst House On The Street” that you can read about in our previous post right here. Now, she has listed another priceless house description on Realtor.com that will surely crack a smile!

“Sometimes I feel like the earth cracked open right here in Tampa Bay and McMansions were born out of our sandy soil because we have so many communities full of them here,” Philippa said when asked if she has encountered a McMansion in her career.

“The Tampa real estate market is thriving now, but prior to the downturn in 2008, builders would throw these style of homes up left and right with extremely questionable design and construction choices (and I’m sure it was a similar story across the US).”

She added: “Now, 10+ years later, we’re feeling the effects of that with major structural problems on homes that really aren’t that old. Or these homes need extensive cosmetic upgrades because they are just not what the modern buyer is looking for.”

There's this entire fascination with tacky, over-the-top, and super posh houses on the internet. We asked Philippa what she thinks of it. “I think there are two categories of content that people can’t look away from—the aspirational and the train wreck. McMansions blur the line between the two so people can’t look away. You can look at these homes and fantasize about what it would be like to own a huge place of your own, but also feel a little bit of smugness knowing you would have made way better design choices,” she explained and added that “if you’re simultaneously being inspired but also cringing, and I think that makes scrolling through these homes an irresistible hobby for people.”

From the point of a realtor, Philippa argues that there’s a home for every buyer and “it’s all about how you frame it to your clients.” “I work in one of the most desirable real estate markets in the country and we have extremely low inventory right now, so finding someone willing to buy a McMansion and cosmetically renovate it or fix larger problems is easier because there are so few homes out there,” she explained.

“In a more normal market, though, the super large homes definitely sit longer than others, because there is a trend of “less is more” when it comes to square footage. I also feel that the whole “do it yourself” fad with home renovations stopped being as popular about three years ago, so now people want move-in ready homes—they don’t want to have to rip out somebody else’s gaudy or tacky choices to start from scratch,” Philippa concluded.