Detroit Agents: Lazy or Scared?

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Has anyone else -- investors, agents, owner occupants -- observed that many listings in the Metro Detroit area do not do an adequate job in marketing their properties?

Sometimes you'll see a proper Detroit area listing: exterior & interior photos with an adequate description. That just seems to be the norm in >99% of homes listed in all areas of the US.

Other times, which seems like a norm for sub $100k listings, you might have an exterior frontal pic and maybe a few lines in description. But nothing like what you'll see elsewhere. If you ask the agent for additional photos, they say they don't have the photos, suggest your agent takes them, or wants you to pay for them.

To be clear, I'm not talking about $1,000.00 REOs that have been gutted or target practice for Molotov cocktails, but decent looking homes in decent areas where the agent just doesn't seem to want to put in the work.

So, are we looking at: 1) agents are too scared to go to some of these neighborhoods or 2) agents are just lazy and not as little as possible to close the deal or 3) something I'm missing?