All Phase Home Inspection, Inc.

Seller Inspections

 

Seller inspections (sometimes referred to as pre-listing inspections) are becoming more popular because they virtually eliminate all the pitfalls and hassles associated with waiting to do the inspections until a buyer is found.  In many ways, waiting to schedule inspections until after a home goes under agreement is too late.  Seller inspections are arranged and paid for by the seller, usually just before the home goes on the market.  The seller is the inspector's client.  The inspector works for the seller and generates a report for the seller.  The seller then typically makes multiple copies of the report and shares them with potential buyers that tour the home for sale.  Seller inspections are a benefit to all parties in a real estate transaction.  They are a win-win-win-win.

 

Benefits of the Seller’s Home Inspection:

-The seller can choose their own certified inspector rather than be at the mercy of the buyer's choice of inspector.

-The seller can schedule the inspections at the seller's convenience.

-It might alert the seller of any items of immediate personal concern.

-The seller can assist the inspector during the inspection, something normally not done during a buyer's inspection.

-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 seller 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. 

-The 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 seller inspection permits a clean home inspection report to be used as a marketing tool.

-A seller inspection is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on the part of the seller.

-The report might relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.

-A seller inspection lightens negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.

-The 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.

 

Q.  Don't seller inspections kill deals by forcing sellers to disclose defects they otherwise wouldn't have known about?

A.  Any defect that is material enough to kill a real estate transaction is likely going to be uncovered eventually anyway.  It is best to discover the problem ahead of time, before it can kill the deal.

 Q.  A newer home in good condition doesn't need an inspection anyway.  Why should the seller have one done?

A.  Unlike real estate agents whose job it is to market properties for their sellers, inspectors produce objective reports.  If the property is truly in great shape the inspection report becomes a pseudo marketing piece with the added benefit of having been generated by an impartial party. 

 

"Note: Just as no two home inspectors and no two reporting systems are alike, no two inspection reports, even if performed on the same property at the same time, are alike. This seller or pre-listing inspection report was performed for my client, the home seller, with the cooperation and assistance of my client, the home seller. It assumes full disclosure on the part of my client, the home seller.  My client may choose to share my report with others, but it was performed solely for my client.  Although All Phase Home Inspection, Inc.  performs all inspections and writes all reports objectively without regard to the client's personal interests, performing additional fresh inspections, which of course could reveal and report matters differently, should be considered."