House Seller Home Inspection – Highly Recommended
You buy a new house and to protect yourself from buying a money pit you would usually send out a home inspector to have the house inspected for hidden damages and stuff like that. But only very few people actually get a home inspected as a seller of that home. They see it as a waste of money or do not think about it. However, getting your home inspected before putting it on the market can be a very smart move. Why?
Buyers often use the inspection results to either renegotiate the price or to ask for some sort of allowance towards the closing cost. An inspector that looks at a house and does not find anything, might make the impression he is not a good inspector. So, they will look for at least some items – even small ones to create a report. Be it that the building code changed since the house was built and they will use that to point out things that should be changed. The longer the inspection report with many smaller items, the easier it is for a buyer to negotiate again.
So, what can you do as a seller? Have your house inspected before you put it on the market and fix whatever you can before you get an offer. It reduces the chances for the buyer to come back with requests for X amount of dollars of the price or money towards the closing costs. You can also use your inspection report to go back and point out that you addressed all items and whatever the other inspector wrote down is a non-issue. If your own inspector actually finds real issues, you can easily address those and even use them as a sales “benefit” and point out the new roof or stuff like that.
A home inspection usually sets you back roughly $350, but it can save you thousands of dollars when being a seller. Of course you should never see a home inspection by the buyer as a hostile attempt to lower the sales price. If you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, you want to make sure you are not buying a money pit.
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