However, I really do wish the MLS board, or someone with some guts, would adopt a standard for illustrations of Skagit & Whatcom County real estate, that specifically honored the original Height-to-Width-Ratio of the images. Because there, quite frequently, the subject of the promotion — the real property — is grossly misrepresented. This may happen because someone ‘innocently’ failed to realize that ’shoehorning’ any old poorly cropped image into a standardized web-page space, constitutes a graphic lie. It’s as if the way it looks to the shopper were not important.

After driving 20 miles to look at a home, only to discover the rooms were decidedly NOT shaped as they were shown on the webpage, I was irked. Then I lauged at this “Fat Albert” of a Cessna. At least we hijacked a foreign bird, and won’t likely have to face copyright infringement claims! (Or does the gross distortion constitute the creation of a ‘derived work’? Does it fly, now that it looks like this?