Advantages of offering Move In Certified seller inspections:
- Seller inspections allow the inspector to catch inspection jobs upstream, ahead of real estate transactions and the competition.
- Seller inspections are easier to schedule and are not under the time constraints of sales agreement's inspection contingencies.
- Working for sellers is typically less stressful than working for buyers about to make the purchase of their lifetimes.
- Sellers can alert the inspector to problems that should be included in the report, answer questions about their homes, and provide seller's disclosure statements.
- Repairs of problems found during seller inspections often necessitate the need for re-inspections by the inspector.
- Seller inspections put (via www.FetchReport.com) a sample copy of the inspector's product (the report) in the hands of many potential buyers who will need a local inspector soon.
- Seller inspections put a sample copy of the inspector's product, the report, in the hands of many local buyer's agents that tour the home.
- Move In Certified yard signs allow potential buyers to view real samples of the inspector's work.
- The inspector is credited, in part, with the smoothness of the real estate transaction by buyer, seller and agents on both sides.
- The liability of the inspector is reduced by putting more time between the date of the inspection and the move-in date of the buyers.
- The liability of the inspector is reduced because the inspector's clients are not buying the properties inspected, but rather moving out of them.
- The buyer might insist on hiring the seller's inspector to produce a fresh report since the seller's inspector is already familiar with the home.
- Seller inspections provide inspectors opportunities to showoff their services to listing agents.
- Seller inspections provide examples of the inspector's work to the listing agent of each home, which might encourage those agents to have other listings pre-inspected by the inspector.
- Most sellers are local buyers and so many sellers hire the inspector again to inspect the homes they are moving to.
Suggested language for inspectors to use:
"Note: Just as no two home inspectors and no two reporting systems are alike, no two inspection reports, even if performed on the same property at the same time, are alike. This seller or pre-listing inspection report was performed for my client, the home seller, with the cooperation and assistance of my client, the home seller. It assumes full disclosure on the part of my client, the home seller. My client may choose to share my report with others, but it was performed solely for my client. Although ABC Inspections performs all inspections and writes all reports objectively without regard to the client's personal interests, performing additional fresh inspections, which of course could reveal and report matters differently, should be considered."
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