Pre-Listing Home Inspection

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.