As you know, I’m a huge advocate for outside-the-box ideas for selling your home, but some ideas are probably better left alone. Yahoo Finance recently published 5 off-the-wall ways to sell your house, which highlights a few ideas that would certainly drive your insurance agent crazy, in addition to potentially creating other problems.

Numbers 3 and 5 are getting more and more common, but if you allow potential buyers to stay in your house, who pays for any resulting damage?

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