I agree with Patricia, and certainly agree with you that taking the Elfa systems with you makes sense.

Have you measured in the new house? Will your elfa work there? Or, if it would need too many new pieces to fit the new closets, will you be able to use them in other spaces?

Check it all out. At the very least, take the drawers with their runners with you. But check out the other pieces and have a plan before you move.

(btw, their great winter sale is now a limp winter sale, only 20% off with $500 purchase!)

They might care that there isn't any closet organization.

Take them with you. If you bought them at the Container Store, they will have your configurations in their computer. Then you can bring them the measurements of your new closets and they can determine what new pieces you need. Let them do the installation. They usually have sales twice a year in which you can either get discounts on the Elfa shelving or on the installation.

100% take them. Rod and shelf totally fine.

I agree you should take them if you can use them where you're moving to, but you should remove them before you list or you will have name them as excluded. Then you open yourself up to someone requesting they be included. If they're not there when they look at the house no one is going to miss them, but if they are there, someone is going to want them so as to save themselves the trouble of buying and installing them. The problem with removing them is that there will be a lot of holes to patch and you will have to paint the closets.

They are already removed I think so the home could be painted?

Agree—take them with you. If you’re near a Container Store they can modify the size if needed—and they have mini sales that pop up throughout the year now if you’re on their mailing list (just got the tracks and rails for our second closet at 30% off last week!)

As with anything ask your listing agent.

"Custom closets" are a selling point so the issue is whether the benefit to you as a seller is more than the cost of having a new system built. In other words, will you make enough money by leaving them in to offset the cost of having a new system.

Do you have measurements of your new closets to compare with your current system? You might not be able to utilize as much of the old system as you think you can and/or you would be able to get a more functional system for the new closets.

I do agree that "custom" closets can be very personal. When I remodeled I had my coset interiors done and I anguished about exactly how I wanted them to be configured. Ironically if they had already been done I would have just accepted what was there and made them work with perhaps a few tweaks. When anything is possible it sometimes makes the decision making process more difficult. :-)

Get the house on the market asap. Don’t let the closet system hold you up.

Take them with you:

- They're already removed. If they weren't, my answer might be different.

- The new people may or may not want the same storage you have; for example, I hang less /fold more than the average person.

- You've already paid for them. Re-buying would cost you more.

- This, of course, assumes that they'll fit in your new house. Don't take them without measuring and knowing they'll work.

They can be shortened to fit smaller closets, perhaps pieces can be added for longer closets, but you can also use them in other spaces like garage, utility, living spaces.

Yes to what Sabrina said! We just remodeled the kids' rooms, and their closets are a different size now. A person at THC was able to pull up my old Elfa plan and create a new one for me using my old pieces. I just have to buy new hardware. I was so excited not to have to figure all that out myself. For resale, if someone is advertising custom closets, I would take that to mean built-in wood shelves etc, not an Elfa system. I think you're find leaving a shelf and rod.

You want to leave the tracks but take all the fittings? Absolutely not! Put it all back together. Great closet storage is a big selling point. Honestly, I would be annoyed enough to walk out of the open house thinking "what else is missing"?

@elcieg she's talking about taking the whole system with her before listing her home--so a prospective buyer would never know it had been there in the first place. While closet storage is a plus, it is unlikely to make or break a house sale, especially in areas of the country where the markets are still hot. A rod and shelves are perfectly adequate (and as others have noted, closet storage design is very personal).

No, OP is not taking the whole system: except for the hang tracks.

My concern is a potential buyer sees 7 closets and the only thing in them are hang tracks. I would call the house move in ready if I have to outfit 7 closets.

No one will walk away from the right house in the right place at the right price in this market, closet system or no closet system.

@elcieg the last sentence says “would put up new basic shelf/rods” so most of us are assuming the current tracks would be removed. Maybe OP can clarify. Either way houses where I am get upwards of 30 offers per my RE agent friend so I doubt it would matter if she took the Elfa with her.

Then tracks should have been removed before closets were painted. Then holes could be filled.

I agree. Either take everything or take nothing. If you want the closet system and really believe it will fit easily into your new closets (are you sure?), then remove all traces and patch the walls. Don't leave tracks behind -- you'll look like those sellers who take light bulbs and plants as they head out the door. Don't be a cheapskate.