A sad day is upon me...

[zanna5910]

I'm in the process of selling my house and had to move my smoker and charcoal grill to storage. Apparently, as my wife calls it, "the great wall of grills", is frowned upon when staging a house.

Smoke a fatty for me! I will rise from the ashes again. Hope its a fast sale and can get into a new place and start cookin again.

 

[BillN]

Good luck with the sale.

 

[pjtexas1]

you couldn't stash one somewhere? maybe this is a good excuse to buy a portable cooker.

 

[TexasGrill]

Wow! I'm doing the same thing. Except, I'm moving my smoker into storage, and keeping the weber kettle. Got to move it off the (small) patio, tho.

I know exactly how you feel. They tell me that the new house "should" be ready late November. There goes summer.

 

[Bigr314]

That is very sad. Hopefully your new place will have a grew space for your cookers. Have a quick sale and start cooking again. Good luck.

 

[EricD]

I'm not from Texas, but I can't believe a "wall of grills" would be frowned upon in Texas!!
Y'all even have your own style of Que!!!

Good luck with sale anyway

 

[m-fine]

I have a different issue. Rebuilding my deck and the Pit Boss is on the wrong end for now.

 

[Jason TQ]

While I do understand staging it never bothers me if peoples stuff is sitting around. Granted I prefer to not see trash lying around the house, but if it is a little cluttered I can see past it for what I want to do. I've done the house buying dance twice now (recently closed one last week) and both times looking at lots of houses I never look at the stuff in or around the house. Just the quality of the house.

But I know you want to eliminate all potential variables when selling to dissuade potential buyers. The thing I don't understand is staging an empty house. The one we recently ended up buying was empty and I love that. No idea why people can't image their own crap in a place :becky:

When I sold my first house I had my gravity fed, kettle, WSM and big green egg all in the back yard. Inside was normal though.

 

[4ever3]

What in the world is wrong with a grill or six setting on the patio?!?

WOW!

Sorry...

 

[defib]

Better yet do an open house while you are cooking something. Maybe even show how great the house and yard both are.

 

[medic92]

If it makes you feel any better, my wife has declared a halt to the vast majority of my cooking activities (especially grilling/smoking) for at least a couple of weeks while she gets into the groove of her diet. As she phrased it, "You can't cook anything good for a while."

Stay strong.

 

[cheez59]

I feel your pain for sure. A few years ago I got divorced and had to sell almost all of my outdoor cooking equipment. Then I moved into an apartment where I couldn't have any fire at all. It was the worst two years of my cooking life. out:

 

[aawa]

I have a different issue. Rebuilding my deck and the Pit Boss is on the wrong end for now.

You must be really good at balance walking with lots of meat in your hands.

 

[CakeM1x]

Wow! I'm doing the same thing. Except, I'm moving my smoker into storage, and keeping the weber kettle. Got to move it off the (small) patio, tho.

I know exactly how you feel. They tell me that the new house "should" be ready late November. There goes summer.

Good thing there is Fall,Winter, and Spring!

While I do understand staging it never bothers me if peoples stuff is sitting around. Granted I prefer to not see trash lying around the house, but if it is a little cluttered I can see past it for what I want to do. I've done the house buying dance twice now (recently closed one last week) and both times looking at lots of houses I never look at the stuff in or around the house. Just the quality of the house.

But I know you want to eliminate all potential variables when selling to dissuade potential buyers. The thing I don't understand is staging an empty house. The one we recently ended up buying was empty and I love that. No idea why people can't image their own crap in a place :becky:

When I sold my first house I had my gravity fed, kettle, WSM and big green egg all in the back yard. Inside was normal though.

I think the whole staging an empty house is having stuff in rooms helps show their actual size. Empty small rooms look really small and is not appealing. Through some stuff in there with some colors helps make it appear larger. At least that's what I hear when my wife watches HGTV

 

[SteelSmokin]

I'd grab my lawn chair and cooler and smoke at the storage place.

 

[cholloway]

Bury a small statue of St. Joseph upside down in the yard for quick sale of a house... or, so they say. http://www.wikihow.com/Bury-St.-Joseph

 

[KevinJ]

Married last summer and sold my home in the fall, had a Weber Performer, gasser and WSM all on the back patio, home was on the market less than 90 days.

 

[CopyNPaste]

We are on different ends of the spectrum; my fiance said "Once we buy a place, you can get another smoker." I have never saved money faster in my life lol

 

[itschris]

We're in the process of downsizing now too. Our daughter graduated college and will be starting law school soon. We just bought a townhome minutes from my office which will eliminate the 2.5 hours of travel per day. The problem is we're going from 4K square feet to 2,200 square feet in the townhome. I'm not sure I can keep both smokers... especially the Stumps Classic, in the garage. I also have my first born... my Brinkmann Cimarron Deluxe offset. I can't even think about having to put those away in a storage unit and have the hassle of getting them out every time I want to bbq.

 

[bbqlearner]

In my opinion (granted I joined a BBQ forum), staging a house should be only on the inside for the most part. While having a lot of clutter in patio is probably frowned upon, I'm not sure 1 smoker in a patio would matter that much.

When I sold my house last time, I had cleaned out the inside of my house to a minimum and everything else, I put it in my detached garage (didn't even put it in storage) so the buyer can see where I put everything.

Sold it within 60 days - no problem!! And my Weber OTS was on the patio at that time.