inspection reports: Pre-Inspected Listings, The Future of Real Estate
- 06/01/07 08:33 AM
The Carson Dunlop Report is Published by Carson Dunlop & Associates Ltd., Consulting Engineers - Building Inspections Pre-Inspected Listings, The Future of Real Estate Home inspections have traditionally been for the benefit of the purchaser. Pre-inspected listings benefit all parties - purchasers, vendors and Realtors. Deals Won't Fall Through Home inspections, performed as a condition of the offer, can kill deals. Sometimes this is because the purchaser gets cold feet; sometimes there's a big problem no one knew about. Sometimes it is because the house has been mis-represented; sometimes it is because the home inspector scared the purchasers by not explaining that minor and typical (4 comments)
We've all seen them. Paper reports, Electronic reports, checklists, narratives, summaries. Delivered on-site or within a day. Photos and illustrations, graphics and icons. The buyer, seller, realtor, inspector, appraisor all have varied perspectives. What are they? What gets the information across easily without confusion.
I'd like to find the successes, when, what, how the report or inspector helped. There's a flip side to this coin and I'd like to hear that too.