Dear Edith: We are selling our home. We have shelves on our wall in our children's rooms. Can we take them with us or are we required to keep them with the house? -- J.P.

Answer: If you've already signed a sales agreement with buyers who saw the shelves up there, they stay. In general, something that is permanently attached becomes a fixture and goes with the real estate.

But if you're just putting your house on the market, you can always state in the listing contract that the seller ...

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