Importance of
Pre-Inspecting Your Home

In today's high foreclosure market, it is more important now than ever before to pre-inspect your home.

Eventually your buyers are going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. Having an inspection performed ahead of time helps in many other ways:

• It allows you to see your home through the eyes of a critical third-party.
• It helps you to price your home realistically.
• It gives you time to make proper repairs for items shown in your inspection report.
• Defects won’t become negotiating stumbling blocks later.
• You have time to get reasonably priced contractors or make the repairs yourself, if qualified.
• It may encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
• It may alert you of items of immediate personal concern, such as mold, or active termite interaction unsafe wiring.
• It may relieve prospects concerns.
• It reduces your liability by adding professional supporting documentation to your Disclosure statement.
• Alerting you to immediate safety issues before agents and visitors enter your home.

Copies of inspection report along with receipts for any repairs should be made available to potential buyers.

A nice little disclaimer for pre-listing inspection reports:

“Note: Just as no two home inspectors and no reporting systems are alike, no two reporting systems are alike, no two inspection reports, even if performed on the same property at the same time, are alike. The pre-listing inspection report was performed for my client, the home seller, with the cooperation and assistance of my client/ home seller. It assumes full disclosure on the part of my client/home seller. My client may choose to share my report with other, but it was performed solely for my client. And although Walton Inspection Group performs all inspections and writes all reports objectively without regard to the client’s personal interests, additional inspections, which of course would reveal and report matters differently, should be considered.”

Additional Resources:

FAQs on Home Inspections

Ten Important Questions to
Ask Your Home Inspector

Why You Need a Home Inspection