Some seller’s are really fond of going the please the buyer route and other’s obviously are not. I am not sure I am sold on extremes either way,common sense consideration for the market and neighborhood should be weighed with the cost and energy of any prepping to sell efforts,or lack of them.
Certainly can’t hurt to spruce the place up a bit. Taking stuff down that freaks people out would be good. Funny how some people think everyone likes rugs for window treatments, those things also are essentially agent independent BTW, when they are allowed to remain.
Who are we to say it more than once?

I have noticed another interesting trend. When someone inherits a house from deceased parents a structural engineer is brought into make a report, when if the parents had just sold the house while they were living a standard transfer disclosure would be used. I haven’t had a listing like that so this is interesting. Maybe I am wrong on this but I have seen it on consective instances of this situation. My guess is that it has something to do lack of credibiltiy in the basis for the TDS, since the heirs possibly have not had first hand knowlege of the home?
I do not recall any availability or strutural reports on probate sales. I have shown several but never been to escrow on them, so who knows, they could have been part of the disclosure packet. I tend to doubt it because at least occaisionally something like that would be listed in the remarks on the mls.Havent seen it.