While Your Home is on the Market. By Elizabeth Weintraub
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Often sellers who are separating or getting divorced feel a lot of pressure to sell quickly, especially if the partner who remains in the home cannot afford to continue to maintain it.
But that is not information most sellers want to share with buyers. Yet they do. They may as well toss their wallet out the car window doing 100 on the freeway.
They do this by hanging either all men's or all women's clothing in the closet. Was it a heterosexual or bisexual involvement?
Who cares? It's nobody's business, really, if a seller is dissolving a relationship.
But once a buyer finds out a seller desperately needs to sell, the buyer won't make an offer anywhere near list price.
So don't leave any telltale clues around that could give away your motivation to sell.
Before you put your home in the market, please, prep it; empty out drawers, stage closets and pack up anything remotely personal.
If your house speaks to a buyer about you, it's probably saying the wrong thing.