You can always get s couple more thousand out of a house that will sell for $100k+. The key is to make sure the music is on when the house is being shown. And even if you can't add $2k to the asking price, it will speed up the sale of the home enough to save him $2k in interest on a construction loan. He is being short sighted
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.