20 Reasons To Have Your Home Professionally Inspected Before Putting It On The Market
Eventually your buyer is going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. Having an inspection performed ahead of time can also help in at least twenty other ways:
1. You can choose a certified NACHI inspector rather than be at the mercy of the buyer's choice of inspector.
2. You can schedule the inspection at your convenience.
3. The report may alert you of any items of immediate personal concern, such as electrical hazards or active termite infestation.
4. You can assist the inspector during the inspection, something normally not done during a buyer's inspection.
5. You can have inspector correct any misstatements in the inspection report before it is generated.
6. The report can help you realistically price the home if problems exist.
7. The report can help you substantiate a higher asking price if problems do not exist or have been corrected.
8. The report may alert you to any immediate safety issues found, before agents and visitors tour the home.
9. The report provides a third party, unbiased opinion to offer to potential buyers.
10. The buyers can put aside the need for their own inspection. If the buyers want a reinspection, the fee can be reduced.
11. A seller inspection permits a clean home inspection report to be used as a marketing tool.
12. A seller inspection is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on your part.
13. The report can relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.
14. A seller inspection lightens negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.
15. The report may encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
16. The deal is less likely to fall apart, as they sometimes do, when a buyer's inspection unexpectedly reveals a problem, last minute.
17. The report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
18. You can include copies of the report in your promotional packets.
19. You can wrap the inspection cost into the home sale price.
20. A seller inspection may reveal problems ahead of time which:
a. Gives you time to make repairs and shop for competitive contractors.
b. Removes over-inflated buyer procured estimates from the negotiation table.
c. Permits you to attach repair estimates or copies of paid invoices to the inspection report.
d. Can make your home show better.