My wife and I sold our house last year. About two months before the sale, and on the recommendation of our real estate agent, we moved all of our furniture to storage so that the house could be re-carpeted and re-painted throughout the inside, and then staged with temporary furniture brought in by a staging company. Our furniture was in storage for two months or so. Can that storage cost be considered a selling cost? We were living in an apartment during this time and I understand that our temporary apartment rental would not be a selling cost. But without moving our furniture into storage, the house could not have been made as attractive to potential buyers, or so our real estate agent argued.
