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Pre-Listing Inspections
Advantages for Sellers:
- You can choose a Home Sweet Home Inspections inspector rather than be at the
mercy of the buyer's inspector, who may not be similarly qualified.
- You can schedule the inspection at your convenience, and eliminate having
umpteen inspectors traipsing through your home in a "multiple offer" situation.
- The inspection will alert you to items of immediate concern, such as safety items,
or major repairs prior to any viewings.
- You can assist the inspector during the inspection, something normally not done
during a buyer's inspection.
- The inspection report can help you to realistically price the home if problems do
exist.
- The report can help you realize a higher asking price if problems don't exist or
have been corrected.
- A pre-listing inspection reveals problems ahead of time, which:
- if repairs are made, can make the home show better.
- it gives the seller time to make repairs or shop for competitive contractors,
and attach repair estimates or paid invoices to the inspection report.
- the report can mitigate/eliminate over-inflated buyer-procured estimates
from the negotiation table.
- The report provides a third-party, unbiased opinion to offer to potential buyers.
How? Our ultimate responsibility is to the house, not who pays the bill.
- A pre-listing inspection allows the inspection report to be used as a marketing
tool.
- A pre-listing inspection report is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on your
part, and as our ultimate responsibility as professional Inspectors, is to the
property no matter who pays us, which in the end is actually the buyer.
- The report can relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they
walk away.
- The sale is less likely to fall apart, as they can, when a buyer's inspection
unexpectedly reveals a last-minute problem, eliminating 11th hour re-negotiations.
- The report may encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
- The report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
Advantages for Buyers:
- The inspection is done already, by a fully trained professional Inspector, no need
to settle for an unqualified inspector just because your preferred inspector is
already booked.
- You can save money by hiring us to do a walk through inspection with you rather
than commissioning another full inspection, something we would also be happy to
do for you and is recommended if the date from the pre-listing inspection is over
six months old.
- The report provides for an accurate third-party view of the condition of the home
prior to making an offer.
- A Pre-listing inspection eliminates surprise defects. Major problems can be
corrected, or at least acknowledged, prior to making an offer on the home.
- A Pre-listing inspection reduces the need for negotiations and 11th-hour re-
negotiations.
- The report might assist in acquiring financing.
- A pre-listing inspection allows the buyer to sweeten the offer without increasing
the offering price by waiving inspections.
- Pre-listing inspections help to eliminate "buyer's remorse" that sometimes occurs
just after an inspection.
- Pre-listing inspections reduce the need for 11th-hour re-negotiations, this is
particularly advantageous in a multiple offer situation.
Advantages for Realtors:
- Sellers can schedule the inspections at their convenience, with little or no effort
on the part of agents.
- Sellers can assist inspectors during the inspections, something normally not done
during buyers' inspections.
- The reports help sellers see their homes through the eyes of a critical third-party,
thus making sellers more realistic about asking price.
- Agents are alerted to any immediate safety or major issues found, before other
agents and potential buyers tour the home.
- Repairs made ahead of time could make homes show better.
- Reports hosted online entice potential buyers to tour the homes.
- 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.
- The reports might relieve prospective buyers' unfounded suspicions, before they
walk away.
- Pre-listing inspections help to eliminate "buyer's remorse" that sometimes occurs
just after an inspection.
- Pre-listing inspections reduce the need for negotiations and 11th-hour re-negotiations.
- Pre-listing inspections relieve you, the listing agent, of having to
hurriedly procure repair estimates or schedule repairs.
- The reports can encourage buyers to waive their inspection contingencies.
- Deals are less likely to fall apart, the way they often do, when buyer's inspections
unexpectedly reveal last-minute problems.
- Reports provide full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
› Click here for a list of questions to ask before selecting a house inspector.
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 Chris discovered a potential deal breaker during a pre-listing inspection that my client had repaired before her house went on the market. It sold in a few days.
Victoria Bell, Dexter Associates
I liked your honesty, straight-forwardness and your concern for my personal safety. You just saved me $300,000... thanks!
R. Ringdahl, Vancouver
The photos pointing out problem areas, the summary and supplemental information were great.
R. Marks, Vancouver
The inspector told us his findings as he went along. The detailed findings and pictures are nicely put together in a binder.
S. Peters, Langley
The inspector was easy to talk to and allowed me ample time for questions. He was extremely patient and I felt comfortable.
C. Salgado, Richmond
The very thorough evaluation of our purchase allowed us to make our decision confidently. Excellent value and service for the money.
T. Pickett, Vancouver
Once again, thanks for doing the inspections and answering my follow-up questions. Both my wife and I greatly appreciate it. I will definitely recommend you to my friends in the future when they are looking for a house inspector.
Phil K., Burnaby
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