Why Get a Home Inspection

If you are selling a home, you'll get the highest price in the shortest time, if your home is in top condition. Almost all sales contracts include the condition that the contract is contingent upon completion of a satisfactory inspection. This is known as the inspection contingency. Buyers will insist on a professional home inspection performed by an inspector they will hire. If the buyer's inspector finds a problem, it can cause the buyer to get cold feet and the deal can often fall through. At best, surprise problems uncovered by the buyer's inspector will cause delays in closing, and usually you will have to pay for repairs at the last minute, or take a lower price on your home.

It's better to pay for your own inspection before putting your home on the market. Having a pre-listing inspection done by Diligent Property Inspections LLC will make the whole sale process easier. Present any items as is and reflected in the purchase price, or have them repaired and show receipts and the summary report to the potential buyers. Otherwise, you can count on the buyer's inspector finding them, at the worst possible time, causing delays, and costing you more money.

One of the key benefits of having the inspection done early, is that if there are any problems discovered that need to be repaired, you can have the repairs done on your own terms, on your own schedule. When a problem isn't found until the buyer has an inspection performed, the deal you've worked so hard to get done may fall apart unless you act quickly to get the repairs done. Or you may have to take a lower price, in order to keep the deal moving. In either case, you'll almost certainly have more headache, and spend more money, than if you'd known about the problem and had it repaired before negotiations began. You could save thousands by simply being able to shop around and get competitive bids from contractors, rather than being forced into paying for a rush job at the last minute. Another area where you can save money is in having flexibility to choose the materials used in repairs. Sales contracts usually specify repairs must be made using materials of comparable quality. By identifying needed repairs early, you'll have the option to save money by using less expensive materials for the repairs.

You can also benefit from simply offering certain items as is. Often, you can negotiate with a buyer to accept items in the current condition by stipulating that they are reflected in the purchase price. But that same buyer may walk away from the deal if the conditions come as a surprise, after an offer has already been made. If the home is inspected before the house goes on the market you will be aware of the condition of the house before an offer is made. There wont be any surprises and the deal is far less likely to fall apart. It takes a lot of effort to get a sales agreement signed in the first place. If the inspection turns up problems, the buyer will want to negotiate a new deal and that second sales agreement is usually even harder to get done than the first one.

By having a pre-listing inspection done by Diligent Property Inspections LLC, you can identify problems early. Then either correct them or present them as is, assuring that the first offer you accept can move quickly and smoothly to closing without delays or costly surprises.

I feel that No Seller should ever place their home on the market without having our Pre-Listing Inspection Done as demonstrated above it could be a very bad choice for you. To help you decide that this is your best move, and to assure you we are diligent and comprehensive in our work, Diligent Property Inspections will give you this written guarantee.

"Should the buyer's inspector find something other than what we have identified in our report as defective or needing further evaluation/repair, which winds up costing you a $1,000.00 or more to have replaced or repaired (this does not include updates, additions or modifications to the structure or landscaping, or items that we clearly do not inspect for as indicated in the report, such as outbuildings, sprinkler systems, etc.) in order to sell the home. I'll gladly refund 100% of our inspection fee, just keep the other inspectors report, repair records, inspector name and contractor names for us to verify".

Why wait for the inevitable (buyer's inspector) findings. Know what to expect ahead of time, go in with your eyes open and in many cases your buyer(s) may ask to review our report making it that much easier for you to sell your home. Perhaps after looking at our report's detail and thoroughness they won't even schedule their own inspector, thereby saving themselves money and you and them time on the closing. If you'd like, I'll even place a sign in your front yard under the Realtor's sign or FSBO sign, stating that your home has been  "DILIGENTLY INSPECTED"  by Diligent Property Inspections LLC