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Should a Seller Hire a Home Inspector Before Putting the House On the Market?

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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956

Do you recommend a pre-sale home inspection to your seller clients?  Yvette Chisholm suggests some good things to consider before you do (or don't).

Original content by Yvette Chisholm Assc Broker MD DC VA

Does a seller hire a home inspector before putting the house on the market?  

Some Say Yes - Others Say No - I say it depends...

If you hire a great home inspector before you put your house on the market they can:

  • Determine issues and you can get them repairedinspector
  • Buyers have confidence when a home has been pre-inspected
  • Sellers have minimized the opportunity for a big "surprise" after the buyer does an inspection
  • Gives sellers the opportunity to tweak issues that might look like a long list to an inexperienced buyer
  • The home seller will have their own home inspector to review a "potential issue" that the buyer's "home inspector" has discovered

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Things to think about:

  • It could create liability for the seller if the buyer relies on the report provided and chooses not to do their own inspection
  • The seller may spend money fixing things the buyer wouldn't ordinarily ask them to fix
  • The buyer has more of an "investment" in the house if they pay for their own home inspection
  • If the seller's home inspector misses something that is a health or safety risk
  • The home inspector the seller chooses might be more detail oriented that the buyer would have chosen and a long list of items might seem overwhelming to the buyer.
  • The home inspector the seller chooses might be less detail oriented that the buyer would have chosen and not inspected items that the buyer considered important or critical.

Yvette Chisholm, Associate Broker, MD, DC, VAAlan Bruzee & Yvette Chisholm Alan Bruzee, Associate Broker, MD, DC, VA
Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.
 Rockville/King Farm Office 301-548-9700
402 King Farm Blvd #150 Rockville, MD  20850

Telephone: 301-758-9500

www.BruzeeChisholm.com


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Comments (3)

Yvette Chisholm
Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. - Rockville, MD
Associate Broker - Rockville, MD 301-758-9500

Thanks for the re-blog Leah...appreciate it!   I think it is so important for buyers to get as much information as possible.  Thanks for stopping by my blog : )

Jul 14, 2010 10:15 AM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Yvette  - and thanks for stopping by mine as well.  Important for the seller too.  Forwarned is forarmed.

Jul 14, 2010 04:22 PM
Debbie Walsh
SHAHAR Management - Middletown, NY
Hudson Valley NY Real Estate 845.283-3036

I always recommend it because it can do nothing but good for the seller.  Unfortunately in this market people don't always heed the advice.  Good reblog Leah!

Jul 15, 2010 01:01 PM