REMOVE IT OR LOSE IT
Well the place has been painted and the rugs were shampooed but are you really ready to put the house on the market? The answer is “NO”, not unless you have gone through and taken down the stuff you are too attached to to sell with the house. You know what I mean, things like the French doors with stained glass windows that you had installed at the entry to the sun room. The puffy bedroom curtains that match the handmade quilt your grandmother gave for your wedding present have got to go. Not even the leather wrapped switch plate covers that you have been collecting every year at the summer art fair can stay.
Nope, you aren’t ready to sell your house until after you have removed everything that you do not intend to leave behind. And here is the reason why, people who come to see your house are going to like that cool stuff and they are going to think, sometimes subconsciously, that those cool things are going to be theirs when they buy the house. When they actually get the keys, or sometimes when they are doing their “walk through” just before signing all those papers, they notice that things are missing and they start to get upset. They liked your stuff and now their feeling are hurt cuz you stole them. They sometimes start throwing insults and profanities around like rice at a wedding. People have been known to blow the actual value of the missing accouterments way out of proportion and I once saw a grown up bank executive act like a seventh grade boy who just lost all his iTunes to a hard drive crash. Not a pretty sight.
So here is everything you need to know about preventing this problem; take your prized, precious and priceless doodads down before anyone sees them!
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