s/o selling house: Do you need to patch nail holes?

Pickle123

We already sold our house and close on the 24th, we took down all of our pictures and art off the walls....do we fill the nail holes in?

4cats4us

If you already SOLD the house, I would say.... No.

VMRRN23

So you are presently still in the house and the sellers are getting it on the 24th? Then yes, I would do the polite thing  and fill the holes. 

lachute

We were only asked to patch where our elfa system was up. With left the holes with hangers still in the other spots. That being said we only had 4 items in our home hanging. 

kaylie622

Our sellers did not patch the holes or remove many of the nails.

lmdbww

I was told that we didn't have to.

But, I do plan on patching anything really huge, and cleaning the walls a little bit (we have oil heat and I burn a lot of candles so I know there is soot on the walls) as a courtesy.

car_ramrod

We patched all holes in our walls when we moved out so there were no nails, screws, or anything in any walls and all the paint had been touched up.  Our sellers didn't even clean plus they left all the nails in the walls along with drywall anchors and screws hanging out.  Fun times.  I wouldn't worry about just regular nail holes (as long as you don't have a ton or large ones) but I would definitely patch any large holes and wouldn't leave screws or nails in the walls.

DANGERUSS & MITTENS

Only if you plan on touching up paint too.  As a new buyer - I'd rather not have patches/fill all over the place which is way more obvious than a nail hole when I'm moving in. I'd rather do the small task myself so that I could repaint as my schedule allowed, not make it mandatory to have to paint asap before I moved in because there are patches/white fill everywhere. 

emoflamingo

If I were touching up the paint, yes. However, I wouldn't worry about it otherwise. Especially since they could come in and repaint again anyways. (I repainted every wall in our current house and I imagine I'll do the same in the next lol.)

Susie Derkins

I probably wouldn't bother.  Our sellers didn't.  Because once you patch the holes... are you going to paint over the patches?  And will it look even?  No?  Then it's not worth it, and won't look any better for your efforts.

+jennasue+

I would say that depends on how much you like the buyers

nursecramer

Congrats on selling so quickly!

Not to be a total creeper, but I loved the photo on your blog with your family's shadow across the building site, what a cool picture!

GingerSB

Nope. 

Pickle123

nursecramer:

Congrats on selling so quickly!

Not to be a total creeper, but I loved the photo on your blog with your family's shadow across the building site, what a cool picture!

 

Hey thanks! I thought that was a pretty nifty pic.

jacksjerseygirl

No. A broom clean out is all that you need to do. When people patch nail holes - unless you plan to paint - it leaves the wall looking terrible. 

 

I leave nails in holes and allow the new owners the decision of whether the existing nail works for their hangings.  

darby0422

kaylie622:

Our sellers did not patch the holes or remove many of the nails.

This is what our sellers did too.

Knitty

Not unless you're repainting. A nail hole is much less obtrusive than spackle. And they'll probably hang stuff in the same places you did.

JoeLies

Our sellers didn't and we didn't really care.  We figured they also scuffed up the walls on their way out so we needed to spackle and repaint anyway.

On the other hand, we did a very thorough job of spackling up our rental!