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Many people have a collection of some sort. I have a blue bottle collection. Why, I don’t know. I think I had something that came in anice looking blue bottle, so I kept the bottle. I now have about 5 or 6 blue bottles of different shapes and sizes. I keep them in a cabinet in the kitchen and I rarely pull them out.

Some collections are just a few items, like my blue bottles. Others can be quite extensive and often people display them throughout their home. Collections can be a lot of fun and very interesting, something to share with family and friends when they visit. However, when you have your house for sale, it is usually best to put the collection away and out of sight.

For one, they can be a distraction. When prospective buyers are viewing your home, you really want them looking at your house, not at your collection. You want them to remember your house as the one with the nice kitchen or big backyard, not the one with the model airplane collection or all the plates displayed everywhere.

Also, collections often have a tendency to make the house look cluttered. Clutter is probably the worst thing to have in a house for sale. Likewise, removing clutter is the least expensive and best thing you can do to prepare your home for sale.

When preparing your home for sale, the goal is to make the home appeal to the biggest pool of buyers as possible.  Buyers need to be able to picture themselves living in a home. Sometimes sellers make this very hard for buyers to do. For instance, I recently showed a home where the seller had a doll collection. There were dolls displayed everywhere, on shelves, on chairs, and on all the beds.  These were probably antique and very expensive dolls. However, my buyer was a young bachelor and it made it really hard for him to imagine his belongings in among this menagerie of dolls.  If all the dolls had been removed, it would have been easier for him visualize himself living there.  Remember, it is best to depersonalize your home so it appeals to all types of buyers.

By packing up your collection before you list your home for sale, you make your house more marketable and you have one less thing to do when it is time to move.