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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those asking where you're supposed to put your clothes while selling the house if you take the Elfa down... hello, that's the point. Take down the Elfa and put back up whatever you're going to leave with the house (a standard rod/shelf, whatever). It shouldn't just be left empty with nothing to hang on. The new buyers don't want that any more than you do while living there. [/quote]

Exactly. So cheap and petty. These sellers would scream bloody murder if it was done to them. I've never removed a light bulb or a fixture or shelving or an appliance in a home unless it was requested by a buyer. [/quote]

As a buyer, I would never expect an Elfa closet to convey.  I would assume that you would be smart enough to take it with you.  I also assume you're taking all of your garage/basement shelving.  The beautiful antique looking fixtures--I assume they're going.  The wall mounted tv, the picture rail rails, the sound system, I assume it's all going with the sellers.  I wouldn't even notice if a seller swapped out LED lightbulbs or USB outlets.  These are all transferable items that the home owner paid good money for.  Like the couches, the beds, and the other personal items, they can all be reused in their new home.  Certainly the house was not priced higher than comps because of these features.  If someone posted on here that their house had LED lightbulbs and they wanted to price it $1,000 more to account for that, they would be mocked.  So why should the seller lose money on these perfectly good items that they originally purchased.

With the purchase of a house, I expect the bare minimum to convey as spelled out in the contract.[/quote]

I think the whole point with shelving and light bulbs, is that it is PERFECTLY FINE to take it with you if you've paid to have either one upgraded, but then REPLACE what you have taken with what was originally there. No one is telling you to leave your expensive ELFA closet system, but I sure as hell would expect that you would put back up whatever it was that you replaced with that system, and it is completely ludicrous to think that it's okay to leave your buyers with zero light in the house because you wanted your pricey LEDs and didn't care to replace them with cheap bulbs.[/quote]

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