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.

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.

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 pulled everything on my old house and just used some drywall patch for the holes, no one said anything

just add the cost to the house price and buy new the new owner may like it for a selling point

You should have put a keystone jack on the end of the cable originally.

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.

Typically you would leave the AP’s. You wouldn’t remove the smoke detectors and take them with you would you?

Assuming you just had a small hole, I’d put a keystone jack and plate. Match the color. Sell as wired for internet.

Since they are permanently installed, under the law, they are part of the house. If you want to take them, make sure that the listing includes that they are no included.

If I were in this situation, I would leave the access points installed, but not include any other equipment (switch, firewall, etc…) that is likely in your networking closet. I would note on the listing that the access points are included, but not the system.

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)

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.

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.)

Depending on how big of a hole there is I would remove the WAP, push the cable back up into the ceiling and then use drywall compound to fill the hole. Google how to patch drywall to get an idea of what I’m talking about. If your hole for the wire is the same size or not much bigger than the ethernet cable it should be pretty easy.

Or just leave the WAPs and buy new.

Poke the connectors behind the drywall and mud it up. Will look better than faceplates