Set Yourself Up for Success When Selling Your Home
Every home seller hopes for a smooth real estate transaction. A successful home sale means a high offer, an easy closing process, and a short time on the market. A pre-listing home inspection can help you achieve these outcomes when selling your home.
A Pre-Listing Home Inspection Helps Focus Your Efforts
When you have decided to put your home on the market, you want it to be in the best condition to attract potential buyers. While most people make some updates and repairs to get their home ready for sale, many don’t know where to begin. Refer to your pre-listing inspection report to prioritize your efforts. Focus your resources on the issues that are most likely to bother homebuyers.
Making Repairs on Your Own Time Saves Money
You can be sure that anyone who places an offer on your home is going to bring in a home inspector. It is common for the buyer to address any problems with the home by asking the seller to make repairs before closing. When this happens, you face a time-constraint from the approaching closing date. There isn’t time to gather multiple estimates and contractors will usually charge more for a rush job.
By completing the repairs on your own time before the home is listed, you will have more control over how the cost and the timeline. You can compare different estimates, and perhaps even make some repairs yourself.
A Pre-Listing Home Inspection can Result in a Quicker Closing
When you have taken care of the major issues from your pre-listing inspection, you can save time during closing. The closing process is sometimes dragged out by the buyer negotiating for a lower price or for repairs to be completed by the owner. By ordering your own inspection in advance of listing the home, you’ll get ahead of any issues that would have caused these types of delays.
House Doctor Home Inspection provides pre-listing home inspections to sellers. Contact us to schedule an appointment in Rhode Island.