There has been a lot of discussion about family portraits or pictures being around when
your home is on the market for sale. One school of thought is that it brings happy
thoughts to the buyer; of the happy times that might have been had in the house. The
other school of thought is buyers will consider the house someone else's home and it gets
difficult to vision themselves living there. My school of thought: spend 10 minutes in any
open house with family pictures and another 10 minutes in an open house without family
pictures. More often than not people looking around the house will spend a lot of time
looking at the photos. Pictures show the buyer some one else lived here and this is their
home, it does not put a positive thought in their mind. If you take away the pictures and
put something else in the frames, it gives the buyer the idea of putting their family
pictures in the frames which helps visualize them living in the home, not the sellers. If
you were selling your home would you want potential buyers looking at your family
photos or your house? My answer, your house, which is why they are there. Let's focus
on the attributes of your house and why everyone should buy it. Then your family photos
can be put up in your new home. -Ann Marie Milanese ASP www.realtorstager.com
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