PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION

Prospective buyers commonly have a contingency in their contracts that calls for a satisfactory house inspection in order for the deal to go through. If so, sellers can make this inevitability work to their advantage by engaging the services of a professional house inspector prior to placing their properties on the market. By offering the report to prospective buyers, sellers can provide a degree of reassurance that my help facilitate a sale. In the meantime, sellers should take the time to accompany house inspectors during their inspections. This can prove to be a very enlightening experience that may help sellers recognize problems and develop the best strategies for dealing with with them.

Getting a house inspection report before listing a home on the market shows faith to prospective buyers and alerts sellers to a potential problem areas. The most frequent problems encountered by home inspectors is in-proper surface grading and drainage. A real estate agent is an all around source of information and can recommend several inspectors to choose from.