On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:31:39 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 21:04:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:51:40 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:03:56 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:09:02 -0700, Electric Comet
wrote:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
DerbyDad03 wrote:

So much for letting potential buyers use their imagination as to what
the room could be used for. ;-)

the point of removing furnishings is to make the space look and feel
bigger

There is a limit to that. There should be enough in a room to make it
look useful but not enough to make it junky. A lot of people can't
"see" their bed in an empty room. OTOH, if there is a queen bed in
the room, it's a lot easier to imagine your king in the same room.
There is a reason people pay big money to stage homes.
Total waste of money in this local market where there are multiple
bids on virtually every listing, and they usually sell way over listed
price - with no conditions, and often sight unseen. Crazy I know, but
that's the market in the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

Probably but it makes the point that you shouldn't totally empty
rooms. De-junkify, absolutely. Remove everything? Not necessarily.
In a "normal" market you want the house look like it's liveable. A
bit of furniture gives it some "scale". I think an empty house is a
harder sell - in a normal market. If nothing else it detracts from
some of the normal "wear and tear"

Exactly. That's the point I've been making but even in a hot market
it may matter but it's unlikely to be worth hiring decoy furniture.