@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
I'd be very skeptical. Perhaps they do this kind of thing for a 'living'. You know, I'm talking casing the joint to see what goodies you have. They set up a plan and make robbing homes their living.
Who says this kind of talk while walking through someone's home that's up for sale? Casing the joint of your belongings. Typically the home owners aren't there anyway, I get passing this info onto the realtor to share with the owners. If my realtor told this to me, I'd probably laugh outloud.
This 'staging' thing nowadays in order to sell your home is totally ridiculous IMO. Newbies in search of a new home are NOT buying YOUR stuff, they're buying the building. Seeing someone else's stuff all around does not at all give YOU any kind of idea what your stuff will look like in the new place. To spend a bunch of your own money to fix up the place in order to sell it to others is insane as well. Yes, you certainly do want it to look nice, clean, spiffed up but there's a definite limit to that. It's so totally distracting looking through a house for sale REALLY see what this potentially new place will look like with MY things in it. I'd so much more prefer to walk through a clean empty house.
So my answer is no. NO. My stuff is MY stuff and I'm keeping it! Some of my stuff is junk but I'll be the one to decide what stays and what goes - to the dump, to goodwill, to a relative who loved that piece over there.
I think it only makes real sense to sell everything if the expensive of moving the items would be much greater than the value of those items. Or if one is moving, needs to sell the house, but doesn't know where precisely one will wind up. Its silly to take a huge 4-poster bed if one winds up in a small studio apartment in the end.
Or, of course, there are the incidences where the seller is going somewhere where s/he doesn't need furniture. Like into assisted living or to live with a daughter or moving into some LU-VAH's place...or death. You don't need many lamps in Heaven I hear.
And sometimes furniture is custom-made to a niche or specifications of a place. One sees a lot of people in Europe who sell - everything included. Often because the moving industry isn't all that big since traditionally people didn't move as much as do we Americans. There remains more of a tradition of passing real estate onto heirs. And lots of furniture there tends to be more customized to a particular wall or room.
And it makes total sense to sell everything (and for a buyer to want), say, all of the Mies van der Rohe designed furnishings in a Mies van der Rohe designed space. Or the Frank Llyod Wright house had best come with the furniture he designed for that specific house.
The other reasons might be that someone just rreeeeallly needs the ca$h. If one is selling a house because one is in financial straits or divorcing, then, yeah, the new owners can have the former marital bed...one full of anger and shame (and good luck to them...may their nights not be plagued with the spirits and squeaky springs of marital discord). lol
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