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I paid $1,000 for my ELFA closet systems...so yes I'm taking those bitches with me. Just pointing that out.[/quote]

Take them down before you show the house then. I know how ELFA is mounted (the top rack drilled into the wall, the rest hanging on those racks), so it's not totally unreasonable to take it, but you shouldn't show the house with it in place. [/quote]

If it's anchored to the wall, it's a fixture which conveys unless explicitly excluded in the listing. If you want to keep it, remove it before showing the house or include language in the listing stating that it does not convey. Otherwise, you may end up having to fork over cash at closing to get the buyer to sign.

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The way ELFA works, the top bar is anchored to the wall but everything else hangs off of that and can be taken down without any tools - as easy as taking a coat hanger off of a rack. It's a gray area, but anyone who saw it when showing wouldn't necessarily know it wasn't anchored to the wall. So that's why I said take it down before showing - you're asking for problems if you leave it up when showing. [/quote]

Most people have their actual clothes in their closet during showings. I don't have elfa but I wouldn't want it to convey either. My parents spent like 7k on their elfa. You can adjust it to fit any closet.[/quote]

The point is that you are misleading the buyer if you are not being clear that the $7,000 worth of closet fixtures doesn't convey.  They would be making a $7,000 lower offer if they knew.Those systems are custom fit and screwed to the wall.  They have a reasonable expectation that they'll stay.  Do you take the old style wooden curtain rods, too?    I guess you could cut a long Elfa shelf to fit a smaller closet, but it would take some engineering and buying of new materials to make a small closet set fit a bigger one.  I'd rather just start over and get pieces that actually fit my new closets.

"I spent a lot of money on it" doesn't determine whether something is a fixture or not. [/quote]

I have a 15k closet system. It would stay.[/quote]

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