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Forget splurging for pricey stagers—just make sure your dog's not pooping in your listing photo. Oh, and maybe mow your pool (yes, pool).

As always, this batch of questionable listings come care of Andy Donaldson, the man behind the Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, complete with Donaldson's commentary.

It's no secret Tribeca's covetable. Dan Gluck, the Museum of Sex's founder and executive director, called it his "dream neighborhood" in our most recent Due Diligence column. And it's not hard to see why: cobblestone streets, lofty housing stock, a marriage of old and new New York. If it's your ultimate neighborhood, too, and you're in the market for a new place, here are properties hosting open houses this weekend:

The number one rule in staging an apartment or house is to keep your personality hidden. Unfortunately these sellers didn't get the memo. We feel like we're getting a little too intimate with them and their, ahem,  preferences.

As always, the listings photos come care of Andy Donaldson, the man behind the Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, complete with Donaldson's commentary.

Tokyo may be brimming with activity, but in some Japanese suburbs, it's apparently a different story. Just a train or car commute away from the city, the population—and buyer interest—has dipped so that houses and apartments are left behind simply abandoned, according to a recent New York Times story describing a real estate market the likes of which current New Yorkers have never seen before.

The basic two-bedroom—not so easy to find in today's competitive market, especially in some neighborhoods if your budget is under a million. These are listings ready for your once-over this weekend: