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Ubiquiti stuff is so cheap that you just leave it in place or the wire hanging out and mention "network ready" on the disclosure.
They'll either use it, replace it, or rip it out but let the buyer determine that. I'd purposely not buy a house if I found out had cat 6 in the ceiling and they purposely put a gang box in the ceiling causing me even more work after closing.
You can probably put “blank” electrical box covers on them if there’s a single gang box up there.
Pushed the cable into the attic and took my AP's. Next owner will just use the isp provided router/modem
Once they’re attached to the house that’s a fixture my guy. Just leave it. It’s part of the house at this point.
Not if the the listing specifically identifies the "fixtures" which do not convey, my guy.
I think the APs are a fixture and likely included with the house unless the contract expressly excluded the equipment.
Don't forget to talk to your realtor about this.
It was agreed upon that I would be removing all the UniFi devices. Our realtor is also one of my wife’s best friends so I’m sure everything was written the way it needed to be.
I just added a keystone and faceplate on the ceiling.
I'd install a single gang box and let the wire dangle.
I purposely ran all my ceiling wires to boxes. Easy for the next owner to add an AP mount or throw a cover over if they don't want to use it.
Everything runs back to patch panels in the basement (and is labeled), so all wiring conveys with the home and all hardware goes with me.
Keystone wallplate and call it a day.
So in my home, I did surface mount keystone boxes for all my APs already. I essentially have only have about 1-2” of blue cable showing before the box and then white cables going to my APs. I feel confident in saying when I eventually sell my home it will be perfectly acceptable to leave as is. Either taking the APs with me or offering whatever I use then with the home.
Replace them with some cheaper AP Like a tplink.
put all the APs back, leave a switch for them and directions on how to access them.
Sell the house with the gear. Buy yourself some brand new stuff with brand new warranties
Well hooooooooly crap I was not expecting this much response!!
So some things to note.
House is being sold as a result of divorce. We’ve both moved on to our own spaces and neither of us have any need for networking as substantial as what I built in that house (I’m in a one bedroom apartment, she’s living with friends). It’s not just Wi-Fi that I had, it was a full UDM SE, POE switch, and cameras too. All the equipment will be sold and we are splitting whatever money I get for it all.
Our realtor (ex wife’s good friend) was afraid leaving everything up would be a negative in selling as the setup was far more advanced than the average person would understand. So everything has been removed.
At this point I think the simplest way is to just put a couple wall plates with keystones over the hole that the Ethernet is coming out and calling it a day. But I’m going to look through all the suggestions when I’m off work this afternoon before I do anything! Thanks again for all the responses!!
Typically you would leave the AP’s. You wouldn’t remove the smoke detectors and take them with you would you?
You should have put a keystone jack on the end of the cable originally.
Just leave them
Personally, I would leave it in place, and call it out as a feature in listings / showings. For your showings they can join the guest network and see how good their reception is.
I had put in a camera system at my last house and left it up with a cheap monitor for the showings. Sure I could have repurposed it after my move, but it was a good opportunity to upgrade with a guaranteed buyer for the old stuff. (and at a much higher sale price than I could have gotten off of marketplace listings.)
I cut the cables and filled the 6mm hole with white pre-mixed plaster. Job done.
Now? I'd leave the APs and a dirt cheap poe switch, APs configured for a simple network, no vlan. They can then just plug it into their router.
just add the cost to the house price and buy new the new owner may like it for a selling point
Another possibility would be to leave the hardware installed during showings, and make sure to say the house is wired professionally, but the hardware would not stay, but cables can be reused.
As a buyer, I would like to see the cables hanging otherwise.
If you remove the AP, leave pictures near their location saying it is wired and can be reused.
For us in this sub, this would be a plus for the house.
Poke the connectors behind the drywall and mud it up. Will look better than faceplates
You had some downvotes but I like this idea.
Except I’d ask the new but what they’d prefer. Or maybe just let them do it?
Easiest or best? Best--install keystones and a proper jack. Easiest--put an outlet cover over it and screw it into the sheetrock (I've seen this done for holes in walls too)
They're not that expensive, just leave them behind, add them as a perk "Pre-outfitted for WiFi"
Barring that, remove the mount, shove the cable back through the hole, and get a dab of drywall mud to patch it and paint over it.
All or nothing, you either do the full repair, or you leave them as is. (Personally I'd leave them as the time it takes to repair the mount points is worth more to me than the cost of a new Ubiquiti WAP.)
We bought a home that had lots of cabling but it was very badly arranged and installed, lots of it just laying on suspended ceiling in the basement in random directions, so I ripped it all out and did my own. After four years I'm still working on things such as badly placed outlets and even light switches that require you to walk across a dark room to turn on the lights, so this is not just homeowner but also the builder. When we switched from cable to fiber optic the installer wanted to just drill a new hole through the siding into our home office. And the new cable laid on top of my lawn for nearly two months before they sent out a guy to bury it by hand.
Keystone jack wall plate will prob be the cleanest solution
Assuming you just had a small hole, I’d put a keystone jack and plate. Match the color. Sell as wired for internet.
I look at moving as an opportunity to do it better. When I put in my APs, the U6 LRs were the best. I'd do it differently now, so I definitely would leave them. Offer them a $500 buyout option for the network as it sits and walk away if you don't want to just give it away. Generally, when selling a house though, the networking is trivial in the amounts of $s involved that I'd just let it go.
It's best sometimes to just reset them through the controller and leave them behind. Buy new at the new place.
I left the network wire hanging out my hallway ceiling. I also left a lengthy note about the house and included what that wire is for in the note so they don't try to plug something else into it.
I would leave the entire network in place. Equipment gets obsolete so fast, you are better off buying new stuff in your new house.
Leave it, with a note of the URL to the owners manual online.
I would remove them and use them again and replace them with inexpensive A/P's as it will look better than a faceplate just get a generic white A/P. Anyone who knows networking will understand they can install there own easily. Anyone who doesn't will think nothing of them as they blend in where a faceplate is like why and the generic A/P answers the why. I would also replace the switch with a cheap POE switch.
After all it is several hundred thousand dollars (I am assuming).
I asked the buyer if he wanted the ubiquity access points and explained nothing was plug and play / everything would be factory reset. He said take them so I snipped the cable ends and pulled any loose wires or pushed them into the drywall and mudded the holes.
Keystone looks best