You’ve decided to
sell your home but do you really need a Home Inspection? Depending on your realtor, they may or may
not, suggest a Home Inspection. Be
assured your home will be inspected. The
buyer, will as a rule, opt for the Home Inspection.
Without
hesitation you put your home on the market, paint and fix it up a bit, and
stage it per your realtor's specifications. Your home looks perfect and the price is
right. Now you have an offer, and the
buyer asks to have the Home Inspection. Is your home ready?
Many items
frequently go unnoticed when preparing the home for sale. Most items are easily
rectified if you only knew what the Home Inspector would find. The dilemma is, if you and your agent cannot find what is wrong, you cannot fix it.
rectified if you only knew what the Home Inspector would find. The dilemma is, if you and your agent cannot find what is wrong, you cannot fix it.
Once your home is
inspected by the buyer’s inspector it is often too late to undo the damage
done. The buyer and their agent, report
in hand, now has their demands of items to be repaired. They will surely ask for a reduction in the
price of your home. To fix or not to
fix, do you reduce the selling price even further? You decide to make all the repairs noted on
the inspection report. You hold firm to
your original price but the deal falls through.
No problem another offer will come, you think.
Has your home
shown recently? It is in fine condition
everything is repaired per the buyer’s inspection report. The problem is, at this point, too many
people have heard about the inspection and what was wrong with the property. The buyer’s agent had first-hand knowledge
of the report. How many other agents was
the buyer’s agent connected to? How many
other agents were in their office, in their realtors association, and in their
immediate realty network?
In this
Inspector’s opinion, the Sellers Home Inspection is an invaluable tool. It puts your house in perspective and lets
you choose which items you will repair and which you will not. Many of the realtors that I deal with on a
regular basis recommend their client initially have the inspection. Being prepared gives you the upper hand in
the real-estate transaction. The buyer’s
agents have a network of colleagues which they will regularly communicate
with. Once the report has been made
available to the agent, that is what they remember. Many homes have been on the market for
months, even years, before they sell. It
is a buyers’ market and you need every advantage that is available to you. You can choose to have an inspection and be
in control of the transaction or let the buyer be in the driver’s seat. |
Frank Carr is the Owner / Inspector at First Choice Home
Inspections in Deltona, FL serving Volusia, Seminole, Orange and Lake
Counties. Formerly in the building trades, Frank’s focus is a safe home
in the Orlando Metro and Daytona Beach areas of Central Florida and building FCHI. We believe that consumers have the right to expect
the highest standards of thoroughness, fairness and effectiveness from
their home inspector and that is exactly what we provide.
First Choice Home Inspections
Residential Home Inspections in Central Florida
(386) 624-3893
Website: http://1homeinspector.com
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