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Why Get your own Home Inspection?
If you are selling a home, you want the highest price in the shortest time. Almost all sales contracts include a home inspection contingency. Buyers usually insist on a home inspection performed by an inspector they hire. If the buyers inspector finds a problem, it can cause the buyer to get cold feet and the deal can often fall through. At best, the problems uncovered by the buyers inspector could cause delays in closing, a lower price, and/or costly repairs for the seller. We can help sellers prepare for the buyers inspector with our Sellers Tips, or we can help by performing a pre-listing inspection (or sellers inspection).
Pre-listing Inspections make sense!
1. Eliminates many conditional offers, fewer buyers getting cold feet.
2. Removes 11th hour negotiation hassles and price adjustments
3. FEWER Surprises for everyone! No deal-killing buyers inspector picking your home apart after the deal is done.
4. No more contradictions between the listing sheet & the inspection report.
5. You control who does the inspection and when.
6. Issues in the inspection report can be calmly researched & resolved.
7. Homes may sell faster and for more money!
8. An inspection report can help market your home to buyers.
What our customers are saying about Pre-listing inspections
"The inspection report really helped our buyers feel at ease. We sold the house to the first people that came through the house, and they said that knowing the house had been checked out really made a difference to them" D.M. 3/06
"The pre-listing Summary Report greatly assisted in the sale of our property. The buyers looked at the report and placed an unconditional offer on our house" E.D. 1/06
"The pre-listing report gave us a chance to repair some things we had no idea about. The buyers inspector had nothing to report, which he said was unusual. We made the right choice in hiring Home Check for a pre-listing inspection and are thrilled with the service and web support" J.A. 12/05
"We are glad we hired a reputable home inspector before listing the home rather than risking the possibility of an inexperienced inspector hired by the buyer coming through our home." S.R. 12/05
Its better to pay for your own inspection before putting your home on the market. Having a pre-listing inspection done will make the whole sale process easier. Present any items as is and reflected in the purchase price. Otherwise, you can count on the buyers inspector finding them, at the worst possible time, causing delays, and costing you more money.
One of the key benefits of having the inspection done early, is that if there are any problems discovered that need to be repaired, you can have the repairs done on your own terms, on your own schedule. When a problem isnt found until the buyer has an inspection performed, the deal you've worked so hard to get done may fall apart unless you act quickly to get the repairs done. Or you may have to take a lower price, in order to keep the deal moving. In either case, youll almost certainly have more headache, and spend more money, than if you'd known about the problem and had it repaired before negotiations began. You could save thousands by simply being able to shop around and get competitive bids from contractors, rather than being forced into paying for a rush job at the last minute.
You can also benefit from simply offering certain items as is. Often, you can negotiate with a buyer to accept items in the current condition by stipulating that they are reflected in the purchase price. But that same buyer may walk away from the deal if the conditions come as a surprise, after an offer has already been made. If the home is inspected before the house goes on the market you will be aware of the condition of the house before an offer is made. There wont be any surprises and the deal is far less likely to fall apart. It takes a lot of effort to get a sales agreement signed in the first place. If the inspection turns up problems, the buyer will want to negotiate a new deal and that second sales agreement is usually even harder to get done than the first one.
By having a pre-listing inspection done, you can identify problems early. Then either correct them or present them as is, assuring that the first offer you accept can move quickly and smoothly to closing without delays or costly surprises.
Home sellers have been sued by home buyers because they didn't disclose something that was wrong with the home. Statistics show that the number one reason people don't look at pre-owned homes is because they think that something might be wrong with the house, and they aren't willing to take that risk. A Home Check can change that for you. We can put your mind, and the buyers mind at ease.
Your home having been inspected by Home Check America goes a long way in helping you sell your home. Buyers like it when the home has been thoroughly checked out before they look at it. It sends a message to the buyer that you have taken care of your home an that nothing is wrong with it or is being disclosed if it does have a problem.
Home Check America will help you know what items need attention before buyers come to your door. If you wait for the buyer to do an inspection, anything they find may require you to disclose to all future buyers! This puts you at the mercy of whatever the buyers inspector finds (who works for the buyer).
Home Check America has the highest trained, most broadly experienced and 'client friendly' inspectors in the business. No one in northern Illinois has more training and experience. We will honestly explain to you the implications of any major thing we find and tell you how it can be easily corrected.
Wouldn't you rest easier knowing that everything has been thoroughly checked before you sell the home?
