Yeah, I looked at hundreds of listings here back when we were buying the place I'm in now (2017, same cities as James), and as a hobby since I look around. I've no interest in selling, just... curious. And I think the vast majority of places are staged, and realtors are taught somewhere "live laugh love sells." And absolutely, no books! A shelf just gets in the way of those LLL stickies on the wall!

That said, every once in a while you see a listing where it's clearly *not* been staged, and freeooo. Some are interesting and some are, um, interesting.