(In case you're curious, in two hours we scored a new volleyball, several phone cases, a two-person inner-tube, cheap jewelry, two boogie boards, and a very nice leather couch missing one leg.

Management is pressuring me not to bother locking rates on East Bay area homes until the appraisal is back, confirming that the home is even viable to lend on.Another anecdote from about a month ago was the appraiser showing up to find the Oakland home's roof had a tarp covering it, held in place by lawn furniture.

Furnish sliders for the feet of their furniture and make sure they're in the threshold when they move in their furniture.

Now the big deal.If I use the local municipality dumpsters, they kick out dumpsters with furniture in them.

Often times it is trash and I just bring it to work the night before the dumpster gets emptied and load up our dumpster... on the flip side I have gotten some super high end pieces of furniture for my house this way.

You might also consider any furniture or equipment of value either as collateral or to be given as part of the compensation.

The newly renovated walk out daylight basement is a 3/2, has a separate entrance and driveway and is fully furnished with  brand new furniture, decor, furnishings, linens, etc as a vacation rental which produces $2,000/mo.

Adding furniture and decor to a home will not only help buyers envision what it would be like to live there, but it also lets them see just how much they can potentially fit in each room.

Are they gonna move all the furniture into the yard?

I started doing that after a couple showings where people said the bedrooms were too small for their furniture.