We worried about this too, I have a couple hundred geckos and a lot of cages. Our house sold to the first people who walked in the door on the first day for a record-setting price. We actually had 2 offers out of the first 3 people who saw it. After that things got crazy, but that's another story...
After my experience with real estate agents, I would seriously think of private sale if I had a hot property, then you can explain to buyers and address their worries.
Somewhat off-topic, for those of you who know our situation and might be wondering,
Dee and I are over halfway through building our new home (and state-of-the4-art gecko
room!). We are also well into the process of adopting our niece and nephew
(2.5 & 6.5 year-olds). Things are working out after much stress, a nasty lawsuit
and few other bumps along the road.
Since were talking about selling/moving, does anyone have any tips for moving 4 large incubators full of delicate eggs?
Best wishes, Neil
I went through this a few years ago.
I warned people before they came in, was here for all showings and gave a very small presentation. At the time there were two rooms with hundreds of geckos. The house sold on the second day. I did remove the cricket bins...seems the bugs scared people more than the geckos.
They also smelled. I would also make pop corn before each showing.
Anyone else had to do this? Potential buyers are really freaked out by my one bedroom of geckos. I live in a really desirable neighborhood where single detached one story homes are really rare in the price range we are asking. The house has been on the market only two weeks, however, hearing about this from the agents after folks have been here to look at the house is getting old already!
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