For Sale: The House That Surrounds This Table

Real estate photography is a lot like Twitter: You only get a limited amount of space to tell your story, so you better optimize what you've got.

With that in mind, I don't understand why some photographers choose to showcase things that convey little or nothing about the house being sold, and why the real estate agent then decides that these are the photos to post in the ad. If one can only place six, seven or eight photos in an online ad, why select a shot like the one below?

Shots like this make me think a) the photographer and real estate agent are very bad at selling things visually and b) how horrible is this house that this is one of the best photos of it (assuming the agent selected the best photos for the ad, which we all know what happens when we assume)? The table in this photograph isn't horrible - I question the ergonomics of having that giant ball in the way of diners' legs while seated at the table, though - but is the table what's for sale here or the house? Is the table included? If not, why is this a feature photo? *smh*