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Grandmother’s hilarious real-estate photos go viral

Yolie Ball

Yolie Ball and her husband are trying to sell their Florida home.

When Ball’s daughter arrived to take some real-estate photos for the couple, 86-year-old Ball insisted on posing in some of them.

Ball’s 15-year-old granddaughter, Makenzie Ball, found the photos so hilarious she posted them on Twitter where they went viral. (So far, the photos have been retweeted almost 25,000 times.)

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“I thought they were hilarious. I was almost crying because I was laughing so hard,” Makenzie told BuzzFeed News.

“I didn’t expect them to get so popular. I thought like 40 RTs from my friends MAX,” she told ABC News in an email.

Makenzie clarified that the photos weren’t actually used in the official real-estate listing, but that her aunt couldn’t resist letting Ball pose in a few of them for fun.

“The first picture, the one where I have my head sticking out of the bedroom door, I was going to pull back and Sandra said, ‘No, mom, stay right there,’” Ball said. “It went from there.”

“She’d say, ‘Oh, lean on the counter,’ or, ‘Go sit on the lanai,’” Ball recalled. “It was just a joke. We’re always doing silly stuff.”

On Thursday night, Makenzie confessed to her grandmother what she had done.

“She called me last night at 7:30 and said, ‘Grandma, I’m going to tell you something,’” Ball told ABC News on Friday. “’I did something and I don’t know if it’s going to be good or bad.’”

Sure enough, Ball’s phone started ringing off the hook.

Fortunately, the cool grandma welcomed the media attention.

While Ball doesn’t use social media, the online attention “made her week,” Makenzie told BuzzFeed News.

“She doesn’t really understand the lingo, but she knew what Twitter was and she knew it was a lot of people,” she said. “I mostly just read her all the really sweet replies I was getting and it made her giggle and smile.”

“We’re getting a kick out of it,” Ball told ABC News.

No word on whether the viral photos have helped get homebuyers’ attention.