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In Praise of Pre-Inspections for SELLERS
Charles wrote a great post about sellers getting a pre-inspection on their home. While many sellers do not want to spend the extra money, it just makes the entire transaction go so much smoother when this is completed in advance and items that need to be corrected are already taken care of. Great post, Charles!
Dear Home Seller,
I know that when it is time to list your home you will have many opportunities to spend money on a property you are ready to leave behind. In fact it seems that by the time you call a real estate agent you're mentally already gone. Then why would a real estate professional add one more thing to buy, like a home inspection, to you're 'to do' list ?
Now, if you are the one in a million, disciplined, natural born handyman of a homeowner with awesome building maintenance skills you may choose not to read on. However, if you are the normal, unskilled, busy, procrastinator home owner and you haven't read (and understood) an appliance manual lately or been on a ladder, or under a house lately or ever, you may want to think about a pre-inspection of the property you are about to list for sale.
At almost every listing appointment  the ... more

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