These days, buyers can afford to be choosy. So what can make your home more attractive than the rest? A pre-listing home inspection.
You'll get more money if your house is in top shape, and be able to close the deal more quickly. Home inspections are an industry standard with over 85% of all homes sold have one. Why would you want to wait until your buyer's inspector finds a problem, and then trys to renogiate the price for the inflated price to repairs!
An AmeriMasters Home Inspection's Pre-Listing Home Inspection Provides Powerful Benefits:
- You'll impress buyers with proof of your home's condition inside and out;
- Correct problems and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that could delay closing;
- Decrease the chances of unknown problems that cause sales to fall through;
- Get a better price for your home
Let's face it, if a buyer is choosing between your pre-inspected home and another home without an inspection, which one will they choose? Yours
Advantages to the seller:
- The seller can choose thier inspector rather than be at the mercy of the buyer's choice of inspector.
- The seller can schedule the inspections at the seller's convenience.
- It might alert the seller of any items of immediate personal concern, such as radon gas or active termite infestation.
- The seller can assist the inspector during the inspection, something normally not done during a buyer's inspection.
- The seller can have the 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 seller 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.
- The 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 seller inspection permits a clean home inspection report to be used as a marketing tool.
- A seller inspection is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on the part of the seller.
- The report might relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.
- A seller inspection lightens negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.
- The 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.
- The report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
- The report provides a more accurate, third-party view of the condition of the home prior to making an offer.
- A seller inspection eliminates surprise defects.
- Problems are corrected or at least acknowledged prior to making an offer on the home.
- A seller inspection reduces the need for negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.
- The report might assist in acquiring financing.