Pre-Listing Inspection

Selling your home?

Give your home a competitive edge for smoother selling. Make sure it's in good physical condition. A pre-listing home inspection is a prudent first step in the process of selling your home. You must present the most saleable property possible.

A home inspection report will reveal the current condition of your home and guide you toward enhancing the value and marketability of your property.  Approximately half the resale homes on the market today have at least one significant defect. Most home buyers don't want to invest a great deal of money correcting problems in critical areas. If you have been putting off those repairs, now is the time to make them.

Most problems in a home are minor and can be rectified inexpensively. You live there and may overlook such shortcomings, but buyers focus on them. If the perceived problems do not derail the sale, they provide grounds for price negotiation.

A pre-listing inspection enables you to attend to problems before the house is put on the market and removes the questions for you and the home buyer about the condition of your home. Buyers are positively influenced by a professionally produced home inspection report, which improves the speed, price, and likelihood of a sale.

You may elect not to correct every defect reflected in the inspection report. Instead, acknowledge the defects to the buyer and explain that the asking price has been adjusted to reflect the estimated cost of repairs. Such candor tends to shorten negotiation time because buyers have fewer objections that could foil the sale.   In addition to facilitating the sale of a home, an inspection report helps comply with full-disclosure laws. By focusing on the condition of the property, the seller and Realtor® are less likely to overlook a defect or material fact for which you later could be held liable. In recent years, home buyers have been inclined to file law suits against sellers and Realtors® involving allegations of misrepresentation, negligence, and fraud.

Some judgments against sellers and Realtors® have been severe, even when the omission of facts was unintentional.  If a buyer requires a Home Inspection after you have a contract on the home, we can provide a new pre-purchase inspection complete with written reports for a greatly discounted rate.