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This is all wrong.

Yes, you get fewer potential buyers seeing your home.  That's a bad thing, not a good thing.

You do have to stage it, if you want to make a good impression on any buyer and induce them to make an offer.  An unattractive interior depresses prices, rather than elevates them, whether one person sees the house or dozens do.

You do need photos if you want to persuade a potential buyer to come see the property in person.  That doesn't change because the buyer is represented by another agent within the same brokerage.  That agent has to persuade any potential buyer to take a look, and they do that with attractive photos.

You don't "get a quick sale for exactly what you want".  The price is determined by the market, which consists of one seller and some number of buyers.  The more buyers, the higher the price for the one property.  Artificially restricting the number of buyers means less competition and lower pricing.  "Exactly what you want" is the highest price possible, and you only get that when you entertain offers from the most potential buyers.

Don't listen to this nonsense.    
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I am the person you quoted.

If I were a seller, whether there are only a few people who come to look at my house and whether it is a good or bad thing would be completely up to me.  I would personally want to limit the number of people who see all my stuff.

In my experience not everyone who does a private listing will stage it.  Two private listings I went to yesterday were not staged.  Neither of those listings had any photos either.  Whether a seller wants to stage it or have professional photos done for a private listing is up to the seller.

And same thing for the price--if a seller has a price in mind and that is [i]exactly what they want[/i] even if it is not [i]what the top of the market is willing to pay[/i], then that's what they want and if they will take it, that's that.

I don't think my perspective ought to be put down for being different than PP's perspective, but anyway, bottom line is, OP can do what they want and a private listing has its pros and cons.[/quote]

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