Putting your house on the market, and transformers. |
04-12-2007, 07:32 AM
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#1 | | Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,220 Location: Northern VA, or as I like to call it Northern Mexico Collection Count: 600ish | Putting your house on the market, and transformers.
Alright. So.Im moving into my own place in a few months, and my mom has just put the house on the market. the problem is. I dont have an apartment or anyplace to put my transformers at the moment. Has anyone here ever put there house on the market, and what did you do with your collection? | 
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04-12-2007, 07:37 AM
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#2 | | ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 8,661 Location: Fort Bragg, NC Collection Count: 1254 at last count | Left it where it was. It's best not to be home when people are seeing your house anyways, so you won't have to answer questions, and they'll probably just assume you're a little younger than you are.
Besides, I can't imagine somebody not buying a house because someone who lives there collects Transformers.
I would make sure it's neatly displayed, though. I take care of people who jump out of planes and kill foreigners for a living. I have the best job in the world.
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04-12-2007, 07:41 AM
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#3 | | Old School Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 996 Location: Greensboro, North Carolina Collection Count: G1, Alternators, Classics | Get a big box and ship them all to my house. Problem solved.  
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04-12-2007, 09:25 AM
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#4 | | Klaatu barada nikto Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 881 Location: Cobb County, GA | The key in selling a house is to make sure everything is very clean and tidy and to put as much of your stuff into storage as possible. Keep you collection out because it will make the house memorable to many people. However, remove all the undisplayed toys and boxes from the closet. You want to make the house look like their is tons of storage and plenty of room.
We just sold a house in December and our Realtor said many people commented (positively) on my collection. However, I put most of my stuff in storage and left out only a small, nicely organized portion of it. | |
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04-12-2007, 09:44 AM
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#5 | | Bite my shiny metal ass! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 532 Location: Calgary Collection Count: Don't count; then you're not lying to your wife when she asks. | Take the time to clean up your collection, organize them, wrap them all individually in polyfoam then find yourself a nice little self storage place. Gort made a lot of good comments. Buyers don't want to see too much of you/your stuff in the house, they want to see the house itself. They need to be able to bond with the house and that won't happen unless you take that life size Don Cherry poster and all of your family photos down and put them away nicely. | |
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04-12-2007, 09:46 AM
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#6 | | Waspinator rules all Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 9,472 Location: NMFTL Collection Count: about a room full... News Credits: 5 | guys, i think he's asking what to do with his collection after the house sells....you may wanna loook into a storage shed....or find a bigger apartment....i was lucky enough to store a large amount at my parents house, until i got a bigger place, now its all with me, except the boxes and other paper crap thats all at my dads hanger.... Quote:
Originally Posted by ORIO  But I really don't think you should Ejector and drive :D |
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04-12-2007, 09:51 AM
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#7 | | RedOktobre Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Collection Count: 5 Opened; 40+ unopened! | TF Collection and moving
I don't think that you need to worry.
Potential buyers of your home are interested in your house. They are not interested in your TF collection. Well, at least, I hope that they are not interested.
Besides, they will probably find your collection "cute" or "neat". This is especially true if the potential buyer has kids.
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04-12-2007, 10:00 AM
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#8 | | Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,220 Location: Northern VA, or as I like to call it Northern Mexico Collection Count: 600ish | Hm. You guys have all given me alot to think about, I will probably go the storage route. Thanks for all the advice guys.
as far as what I was asking, I meant I wanted to know what others had done with there collections while the house was on the market. No what to do once the house is sold. Once its sold, Im hoping to be in my apartment, and not have to worry about it. | |
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04-12-2007, 10:08 AM
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#9 | | Waspinator rules all Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 9,472 Location: NMFTL Collection Count: about a room full... News Credits: 5 | oh...ok, my bad. it seemed like you were asking what to do with after the house is sold, cuz your apartment wouldnt be big enough, but what your saying makes sense too....i wouldnt leave anything displayed that you wouldnt mind losing should someone decide to be a theif..... Quote:
Originally Posted by ORIO But I really don't think you should Ejector and drive :D |
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04-12-2007, 10:15 AM
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#10 | | Flying Under Your Radar Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,988 Location: Montreal, Quebec Collection Count: Whatever survives "The Purge"… | For efficient home staging, it is highly recommended to hide anything that gives the house too much personality. So toys, swords, movies, or whatever collections as well as posters and any kind of clutter should remain out of sight. So storage it is. Sig pictures are to be no larger than 40KB in file size and should be no larger than 300 pixels in height and 500 pixels wide - 2005 Staff | |
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