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Is a home alarm system considered part of a house when selling?
Question : Is a home alarm system considered part of a house when selling?
I am in the process of selling my home. Several years ago, I purchased and installed a fairly nice home alarm system with motion detectors, glass breakage sensors, and a central “brain” that contacted a monitoring service whenever an alarm was detected. Now that I am selling my house, my real estate agent tells me that this is a ‘fixture’ of the house, just like the toilets and lights, and that it must stay with the house. I may neither remove it and take it with me, nor may I expect additional compensation for leaving it.
It seems to me that there is very little difference between an alarm system and a stereo system. I do intend to remove my stereo receiver, speakers, amplifiers, and various decks that comprise the stereo system itself. It would appear that an alarm system would fall into the same category.
Can anyone help explain this to me? Are there building codes or legal issues here that I do not know about?
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Best answer:
Answer by KimmyKB
Anything you want to take with you can be stipulated in your listing agreement…anything. If you want the mini blinds, if you want the refrigerator, if you want the door knocker, you just list those as not being sold with the house, and you take those with you. I’m not sure where your realtor is coming from…
When I bought my house, we didn’t list in the contract that we were to get the door knocker, and the people took it with them. Silliness.
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#2 written by Fort Sill Army Wife 1 year ago
We bought our house in jan 2009 and it has a very expensive alarm system that has window sensors , motion detection sensors in the corner of every room and cameras, every window and door is hooked up with sensors also..I personally didn’t want it but it came with the house. Because our neighborhood is really safe, the people that lived here were strange, they thought people wanted to steal their two kids. Anyways We were told that since it was on the wall and windows it was a permanent fixture, like a light on the ceiling or the doorbell.
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#3 written by kate 1 year ago
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Anything that is attached to the structure is considered to be a fixture and is part of the real estate that is being sold.
If you have something that is attached to the Real Estate that you really want to take with you, I think the bast way to handle that is to remove the object prior to putting the property on the market.
That way potential purchasers will not see the fixture and it will no longer be part of the Real Estate.
However in most cases holes are drilled when an alarm system is installed so you will have some holes that need to be filled, patched and painted before you put the property on the market.
Sometimes the cost of removing the fixture and repairing the structure where the fixture was attached makes the cost of removing the fixture not worth it to you to remove the fixture.
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