Divorced house sale

When a couple splits up and need to sell their family home, one of them normally leaves and takes half the furniture with them! This makes selling the home much more difficult.
You need to show a house as a family home and if it's half empty and not shown off to it's best then you're not going to achieve the maximum price possible.

If it's possible, then get all the furniture to stay until at least the estate agents been to take photos. But both share the responsibility of making the house look amazig for this set of photos that are intended to show the house off.
If only one is staying then the burden of preparing the house for sale falls to them. If they're not the tidyest person on the planet then this might be inadvisable. How you resolve these problems are up to you - it might not be possible to solve them and discussions can be fraught with problems. You need to resolve them though, or accept that the house will not get its top price.
The ideal solution would be to leave the house as a show house and get people in fast to see it and making offers on it. Then you can hurry along a sale and then get on with your own lives.

Leaving a house empty of furniture, or worse leaving it with tatty old items and strange numbers of chairs will make your house look odd. Unfortunately people looking for a family home will pick up on this and make be offput. Feng Shui believes that the previous occupants lives in a hosue affect the future occupants lives.

One case study I've recently looked at showed a bedroom with a cold black tiled floor, dark bedding and nothing nice in the room at all. I did wonder if the room had been made like this before or after the couple had split up. The coluors and styling of the room were cold and unpersonal and not in the least bit romantic. Perhaps the disharmony this caused created some of the problems.
Make rooms warm and attractive. Tiled floors aren't suitable for houses in the UK where the weather is rarely hot. Climates abroad might need the cooling affect of tiles but the UK doesn't currently.

Another recent viewing we were greeted by a very cheerful man who told us the place was a mess but he didn't want to sell and he'd show us round and show us all the faults the place had. The ceiling was down in the front room, the walls stripped and there was a strange smell from the new upvc windows being fitted. He pointed out the lack of sockets, the fact the toilet cistern leaked really noisily and the fact it desperately needed a new kitchen! (He wasn't kidding!)

I did feel sorry for his ex-partner who wanted to sell the house - as it's not going to sell at the price he'd got it on for nor with his rather blunt attitude. The place was really undersold and although he showed us round happily I did feel he was doing his best to put us off and indeed had not responded to previous attempts by the estate agent to arrange a viewing!

Moral of this viewing - if you're selling a house that you no longer live in then pelase check up on what state it's left in - and how your ex shows people round.