| Pre-Listing Home Inspections
A seller inspection or pre-listing inspection can help your client identify potential problems, allowing them to be resolved before they become a stopping point in a purchase.
Seller benefits:
- Seller chooses a qualified inspector rather than be at the mercy of the buyer's choice of inspector.
- Seller can schedule the inspections at the seller's convenience.
- May alert the seller of any items of immediate personal concern, such as radon gas or active termite infestation.
- Seller can assist the inspector during the inspection.
- Seller can have inspector correct any misstatements in the inspection report before it is generated.
- The report can help the seller realistically price the home if problems exist.
- The report can help the seller substantiate a higher asking price if problems don't exist or have been corrected.
- A pre-listing inspection reveals problems ahead of time which:
- might make the home show better.
- gives the seller time to make repairs and shop for competitive contractors.
- permits the seller to attach repair estimates or paid invoices to the inspection report.
- removes over-inflated buyer procured estimates from the negotiation table.
- Report might alert the seller to any immediate safety issues found, before agents and visitors tour the home.
- The report provides a third-party, unbiased opinion to offer to potential buyers.
- A pre-listing inspection permits a clean home inspection report to be used as a marketing tool.
- A pre-listing inspection is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on the part of the seller.
- Report might relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.
- A seller inspection lightens negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.
- Report might encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
- The deal is less likely to fall apart the way they often do when a buyer's inspection unexpectedly reveals a problem, last minute.
- Report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
Agent benefits:
- Agents can recommend qualified inspectors as opposed to being at the mercy of buyer's choices in inspectors.
- Agents are alerted to any immediate safety issues found, before other agents and potential buyers tour the home.
- Repairs made ahead of time might make homes show better.
- The reports provide third-party, unbiased opinions to offer to potential buyers.
- Clean reports can be used as marketing tools to help sell the homes.
- Pre-listing inspections eliminate buyer's remorse that sometimes occurs just after an inspection.
- Pre-listing inspections reduce the need for negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.
- Pre-listing inspections relieve the agent of having to hurriedly procure repair estimates or schedule repairs.
- Reports provide full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
Prelisting Inspection Price: $240 (with prelisting inspection)
Wood Boring Insect Inspection $69 (with prelisting inspection)
Radon Testing: $99 (with prelisting inspection)
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