Last thought before bed

[unixronin]

And it's more than half rhetorical, inspired by a mention on a mailing list of selling your house yourself, and advice on preparing to do so.  Right there on the list of to-do's, sure enough, was"de-personalization".

I've always wondered about that.

Why is it that, when endeavoring to convince some person that your house is a place they want to live in, the first thing a realtor will advise you to do is to remove all personal touches and turn the house into a bland, sterile, cookie-cutter place that you wouldn't want to live in?

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[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Because realty studies have shown that people are more reluctant to buy a house that hasn't been depersonalized because it's easier to view it as "someone else's home". Once you depersonalize it, it's easier for them to view their pictures on the wall, etc. because there aren't already pictures of other people hanging there.