Selling A House And Firearms

Havok7416 said:

Except in the case of digital information the work is being done by a computer with minimal user input. There are minimal layers on a forum such as this.

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There are smarter and dumber ways to disguise oneself.

old lady new shooter said:

There are smarter and dumber ways to disguise oneself.

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You're clearly missing the point.

Show the house, sell the house, move firearms to new house.

If you have a secret room or things you don’t want others to know about etc, just limit what they can see. Once they have paid for it, you can let them know about the “feature”. At one point I had an entire room locked on the last house we sold. If you don’t like that as a potential buyer, move on.

It’s still your house, so you make the rules.

Sorry, if I am paying a pretty penny for a house, I want to see ALL of the house my money is spending. A locked off room would signal house issues that might scratch the sale.
Some folks are way too paranoid about this; same as moving guns across country.....

Wisco: Excellent reminder you posted, that when shopping for a home, you don't want to identify a home with its owners. The home should be as impersonal as possible.

You want people to see themselves as the home owners. The sight of gun magazines or even a little gear could easily turn potential buyers off.
Some might not want any pro-Sec. Amendment people to benefit from their money.

We have moved 3 times over the last 45 years and each time we moved into the new place before selling the last place. This can be a challenge, financially, but it worked out. One time it took 3-1/2 years to sell the older place! I have way too much stuff to hide the fact that I'm a hunter and shooter. Mounted game animals, pictures of me with dead animals, trophies, coffee mugs, coasters, a book case full of gun books, a storage room full of brass, tons of lead in the shop,ect ect. If you can't move before selling then I guess you better choose a reputable realtor and lock up the guns

Having moved around fifty times (eleven times from family-owned housing), I became rather good at concealing valuables from the light-fingered and controversial materials from the opinionated and easily-offended... .

Wisco said:

I put my AR under the bed and my pistol in a drawer.

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Are you saying that you left unsecured firearms in your home knowing that some random strangers we're going to be in your home?

I don't have many guns. They went under the insulation in a far corner of the attic. I could barely get back there. They were out of the house by time of inspection.

Trunk Monkey said:

Are you saying that you left unsecured firearms in your home knowing that some random strangers we're going to be in your home?

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Yep. That’s exactly what I was saying. You’re very astute. If the two accessible firearms were stolen from my 11th floor condo by the person viewing my home accompanied by a realtor, after walking past 5+ cameras plus the ones in my condo (and back out with a rifle), it would've been Madison PD's easiest stolen firearms case to solve. If someone with the funds to purchase a $300,000+ property stole a G19 and a BCM carbine, well, I'd be the most surprised, ever.

My wife - simply as decorations - would have "curtains" around the bottom of each bed, requiring anybody looking for a nervous cat to pull the draped fabric aside.

Anybody who looks under all of the home owner's beds is probably such a nosy weirdo that you would never even want them to make an offer on a home.
And the same for people nosing through personal drawers. If they find a gun, would not the realtor "showing The house" be right by them?

Wisco: five cameras! There often are significant factors not obvious in any good story. Something already 'told me' that you're not just a simpleton, stumblin' from the first long trip in the turnip wagon.

Wisco said:

Yep. That’s exactly what I was saying. You’re very astute. If the two accessible firearms were stolen from my 11th floor condo by the person viewing my home accompanied by a realtor, after walking past 5+ cameras plus the ones in my condo (and back out with a rifle), it would've been Madison PD's easiest stolen firearms case to solve. If someone with the funds to purchase a $300,000+ property stole a G19 and a BCM carbine, well, I'd be the most surprised, ever.

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None of the above makes it any less stupid of a thing to do

I am not paranoid about the security of my guns or their emotional or intellectual impact on a casual observer. I have them insured. They mean nothing to me other than as tools for defense and enjoyment. I inherited no guns. I own no military relics. Nothing that has any meaning beyond the functional. Neither would I want such stuff. I don’t care who knows that I shoot or what I own for shooting except as it may interfere with the sale. All I care about is having the value secured, and I do. If showing my house, I would have the guns locked in a closet for purely practical reasons of not queering the sale and not being easily stolen by a stranger in my house. Bring on the home buyers.

Ignition Override said:

My wife - simply as decorations - would have 'curtain's around the bottom of each bed, requiring anybody looking for a nervous cat to pull the draped fabric aside.

Anybody who looks under all of the home owner's beds is probably such a nosy weirdo that you would never even want them to make an offer on a home.
And the same for people nosing through personal drawers. If they find a gun, would not the realtor "showing The house" be right by them?

Wisco: five cameras! There often are significant factors not obvious in any good story. Something already 'told me' that you're not just a simpleton, stumblin' from the first long trip in the turnip wagon.

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Most of the time, the agent does not crowd the potential buyers; they might point out some neat features, but otherwise, they let folks look around by themselves so they can talk quietly to each other.

Trunk Monkey said:

None of the above makes it any less stupid of a thing to do

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That’s a really nice way to put it. Hoppy Easter.

George P: It has been twenty years since we visited an occupied home with a realtor. Could not remember seeing any agent remain for a bit in a different room, but many might do so.

I had no guns in our previous home, other than a mostly-forgotten .22 rifle in the attic. That was my only firearm--ever--until 2007 at age 52. Decided to insure most of what I keep.