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Reply to "Would you buy a home with an award winning layout or sell your home with your train layout?"

rattler21 posted:

I didn't have an award winning layout but it did occupy half of the third floor.  The real estate agent said it had to be removed.  Several men in our modular group helped me take apart the top, cross pieces and legs.  The house sold to a couple in their late 20s and his hobby was O gauge.  He told me it sure would have been easier if the legs, cross pieces and top had been left in tact.      John in Lansing, ILL (ex-Cincinnati)

It would seem that is the death blow to most potential scenarios playing out positively.

I'm not a realtor or anything, but I suspect every realtor would say the same. 

If you were comfortable doing a For Sale By Owner (FSBO), and could find a buyer who both: a)wanted a train layout and b) was OK with buying a FSBO, then it might work.  You are obviously reducing the target audience to something nearing zero with those criteria overlapping in a qualified buyer though. 

I recall most of the home buying books I read before I finally took the plunge about 10 years ago warning of dealing with people selling their own house.  Generally speaking people selling their own house think more of it ($$) than might be realistic, and there can be a lot of other complications along the way.  While I cannot recite them chapter and verse I think the general gist of it was that you as the buyer are taking a fair amount of higher risk for the seller's convenience of not having to pay a selling commission to a realtor.

-Dave

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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