Buyers should see the room, not the move-out. Item removal takes out what will not be there at the closing: cords, trash bins, personal photographs, a refrigerator covered in magnets, a sofa that is leaving. What belongs to the house stays.
Agents shooting before the seller has finished packing
Photographers who cannot reschedule a cloudy day
Property managers turning a rental with the last tenant’s furniture still in it
Circle what goes, or list it. “Make it clean” is not a brief. “Remove the desk, the chair, and the cables; keep the plants” is.
A wastebasket is in the standard price. A sectional that covers half the floor is quoted from the photo.
If a rug comes up and the floor under it was never in the file, we stop and ask for another angle.
You get the edited file and the original. The original is the record of what was there.
Often, if the driveway surface is visible around it. A car that fills the frame needs another photo.
Yes. We replace them with a plain wall or a neutral frame, and we do not leave the family’s pictures in a file that will be public.
Yes. Tell us directly. We treat medical equipment as personal property and remove it without comment in the delivered file.
Tell us the address, the file count, and what must stay true. The reply confirms the price before production.
Answers come from this website. A person still prices every job.