Home on market

[wcd]

Ok so we may be moving thus listing our home for sale. How would you handle fire arms and ammo? Right now we don't have a gun safe. So gunlocks on all arms and they are stored in a secure room which has modified hinges solid door and security dead bolt. So my plan was business as usual wife or I has the key and the door remains locked for showings. My wife thinks we need to remove arms and ammo from our house for showings which would be an undertaking. If you sold your home. How did you handle this?

 

[GB-Boater]

We removed the weapons and stored them off premise.
It's a constant phone call so you can leave and they can come show the house. It's the way it has to be if you want the house sold.
Hopefully you have a relative or friend you can trust.

Good luck selling the house, ours went in 3 months last fall.

 

[MadMAF]

If you have space under the bed (suggest a drawer or other box like container), or behind clothes in the closet, or somewhere else that is generally out of sight without detracting from the potential buyer's ability to see the house. A locked room that they can't see will raise a red flag in their minds that will end up being much worse than the reality of the situation (anything from damaged walls, evidence of a leaky roof, damaged and exposed sub-flooring, to a bloody mess of people last seen on milk cartons (do they still do that?)). You might even consider pairing down to just a handgun or two (maybe a shotgun), and put the rest in mini-storage until the place sells. Many storage places give you the first month for just a dollar or so, and even the smallest rentals should have plenty of space left over for other things you might want to pull out so as to unclutter the garage or so.

Hope this helps.

 

[Peggy Ebbitt]

I'm a Realtor & I would suggest you store them off site also. Even if you have a safe, someone may come view the house & see the safe & might come back on their own later. We also suggest locking up any medications you have. We have seen 'buyers' view a house, distract the agent & one of them goes & steals something while they are there. So I would not suggest leaving the guns in the house at all. It will also make it harder to sell if buyers can't see in that room. It will make them wonder what you are hiding. Good luck with the sale.

 

[nontechguy]

I knew a fella who had a secret safe room built in his basement. When he put the house up for sale he didn't say anything about it until the sale was final. Then he took the new owner down and showed him.
No point in the whole world knowing.