Pre-Listing Inspection for Home Sellers
Are you selling your home? It’s an exciting time! You are prepping your house to make it look as nice as possible to make some hopeful buyers fall in love with your home. Once they do, they make an offer and after some negotiations, you accept the offer with a few likely conditions. One of them is a home inspection. There’s a good chance the home inspector is going to find some issues in your home. Every house has something and homeowners often don’t know about it until it makes itself apparent or a buyer’s home inspector finds it.
And that’s what may happen in your case. The inspector may find some issues with the plumbing or the attic and that may cause the buyer to adjust their offer. Maybe they want you to fix the problem, or they want you to drop the price to accommodate. Now you have to make some decisions in a hurry. You either have to spend some money, lower your price, or maybe even abandon the offer.
There’s a better way. You can be proactive instead of reactive. Get your house inspected before you list. You will find out what would be found by the buyer’s inspector and you can either fix it before they find it, or declare it prior to the offer. It’s a great way to make your home sell faster and with less effort and headache.