Pre-Listing Home Inspection
Pre-Listing home inspections are becoming more and more popular. There are many Benefits to a pre-listing home inspection – here are some:
Benefits:
- Provides peace of mind for you the seller,and the prospective purchasers.
- Stands as a selling feature showing strength in good faith.
- Eliminates unwanted surprises when it is time to close the sale.
- It’s a heads up allowing you time to address issues with the home before the sale giving you:
- Time to make required repairs and
- You have comfort in know that you have disclosed problems before the become a barrier to the sale
- Gives you an advantage above competing properties who tempt fate without a pre-listing inspection.
- Saves time and allows the home to sell more quickly.
- Home may sell for more money as it removes negative influence of the buyer guessing.
- Eliminates re-negotiations due to issues within the inspector’s report.
- Removes the loss of buyers who didn’t have time for a home inspection.
- May minimize the parade of inspectors through the home before multiple offers.
How does a pre-listing home inspection work?
- At your cost a licensed building inspector conducts a complete inspection and prepares a detailed report prior to listing.
- Your copy remains on display for prospective buyers to consider during showings and or open houses a full scanned version may be made available for serious buyers.
- A summary report may be provided to buyers as part of the home handout flyer.
- Your report will have a place for receipts or acknowledgment for work completed to correct the home’s noted issues.
- When you hand over the keys to the new buyer the report and related documentation will be left as a record.
- The purchaser may also choose to engage their own inspector – that remains their choice or, they may wish to retain at their cost, your inspector to do a walk through to discuss the findings with the purchaser.