What Inspections Should You Have When Selling Your Home?

If you are preparing to list your home for sale, there are things that make sense no matter what kind of market it is. Having a home inspection by a licensed home inspector and a pest control inspection may be two things to consider. Talk to your professional advisors (your Realtor® and financial advisor/CPA) about the advantages of having these inspections completed and reviewing the written reports before putting your property on the market.

With these two reports, you will be able to determine which repairs need to be done, how much they will cost, and whether or not you are going to complete them now to make the property even more desirable or delay them but have copies of the inspections ready to show the prospective buyers. Some buyers in some regions may be willing to pay for the repairs. (Some lenders, especially first time home buyer lenders, may not allow the buyer to pay for repairs.) If your area has a large pool ofbuyers and very little inventory on the market, you will have a better chance of the buyers being willing to do more and pay more to purchase a prime property.

Remember to listen to your Realtor® when she or he suggests that you 'fine tune' your home by painting inside and outside if needed, fix small problems around the house, clean, clean, and clean inside and outside, mow and trim outside, put some pots of flowers on the front porch and the back patio, set the dining room table for dinner with flowers and candles and the ol' standby - bake some bread for that open house so the home smells welcoming.

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