While Your Home is on the Market. By Elizabeth Weintraub
Remove Diplomas and Wedding Photos from Walls
Notwithstanding that all personal items should be removed, sometimes sellers overlook the obvious and leave diplomas on the wall.
People form biases and can carry a bias too far.
For example, the seller might be a lawyer, and there are buyers who might not feel comfortable buying a home from a lawyer.
For whatever reason. Diplomas also give away a seller's age or a close estimate.
If a buyer see a recent medical diploma, for example, the buyer might assume the seller is saddled with student loans and needs to sell to pay them off.
Wedding photos might give away the seller's religion, as do certain religious artifacts left in the home.
Buyers can be prejudiced.
Don't give buyers a way to form any opinion about you at all.
Don't let buyers form ideas about you from the type of music you like or the literature you read.