Bay Area Home Inspection, LLC

Seller's Inspection Program

Use the Bay Area Home Inspection Seller's Inspection as an Internet sales tool!!
The BAHI Seller's inspection report format allows your real estate agent to place a link at their web site listing that will bring the prospective buyer straight to the home inspection report with no diversions. The report is written in HTML (website language) and can be viewed over the internet instantly. See a sample real estate listing with a "Seller's Inspection" link. If desired, we could upload the report to Doc.Central instead.A Seller's inspection will virtually eliminate all the hassles a buyers inspection causes:

No more renegotiations.
By getting the inspection before a buyer comes along eliminates surprises in a home inspection that usually resorts to heated re-negotiations.
No more deals that fall through when the home inspector finds a problem.
Why work so hard to have it all fall apart if a major surprise is discovered during the inspection process? Make the process occur before the buyer comes along!
No more does the Seller have to deal with inflated cost estimates that costs him or her money.
The seller can shop around and have quality work or repairs performed before the buyer comes along.
How valuable is the agents time?
Before you spend countless hours working that property, wouldn't you like to know if there is a huge deficiency before the buyer comes along?

Knowing what defects are present at the initial listing creates enormous benefits:

It will allow the agent and the Seller to discuss what items should be fixed and what should not.
It will substantiate your price, or may convince a Seller to rethink the asking price.
It will be full disclosure protection for the Seller and agent.
It will allow the Seller to shop around for the best price to repair (not an inflated price that a Buyer would use to make sure all is covered.
It streamlines the process.

How easy is selling a house with a Seller's Inspection?
A lot easier than a home that hasn't had an inspection yet. As an agent yourself, if you were shopping with a buyer would you be more attracted to a listing that has already had the inspection performed and repairs complete?Agents are unaware of the marketing power of their listings being pre-inspected
If I were an agent, I would require all my listings to have a seller's inspection. Once word got out to my fellow agents, agents with buyers would then know that my listings are not going to have surprises typically associated with a home inspection, and we just need to agree on the price! It will also validate the asking price, or help the owner to realize that repairs need to be performed, or the price needs to be lowered. Or, as an agent, I am going to limit my time with this listing if the inspection reveals problems and the seller doesn't want to address them or lower his price. Having your listings already inspected will be like a magnet to your fellow agents with buyers! It will also increase your efficiency and productivity.

Seller's Home Inspection FAQ

How can I explain to my seller that this is the best money he or she will spend to sell their home with the least stress, and the most savings?

Explain that the future Buyer will bring a home inspector and will comb through their home and list defects or problems, which most likely will come with inflated estimates and cause renegotiation or anxiety.
Ask them to visit our web site (www.UPsBestInspector.com ) and see the examples and info on why a Seller's inspection is the best money ever spent. Explain that the report will be viewable on the internet attached to their listing with you. This will help sell the home more efficiently, increase interest and will stand out among other listings.
Also, help them to realize their option to correct any problems, and have a reinspection to remove those problems that were corrected, and revise the report on the internet.
Above all, a Seller's Inspection is the ultimate gesture of full disclosure and will help protect them.
Are seller's inspections just as thorough as a buyers inspection?
All of our Inspections are comprehensive and are done the same way, wheather for the buyer or the seller. The one difference is that with the Seller’s Inspection, we can come back and reinspect those repair items that have been addressed (for an additional fee of $50.00) and then remove those items from the Report, thus giving the seller a “clean” report.

But my new listing is "clean" and has no problems so do I need a Seller's Inspection?
YES. It is great that your listing has no problems so lets prove it by uploading the clean report to Bay Area Home Inspection’s website, add the link to your listings, and get that house sold fast fast fast! When the home is clean, showing only normal adjustments for a door or a window, or typical items found on most homes, the report will be a selling tool. When a Buyer is intrigued about a home they are looking to buy, a main reservation is wondering about the condition of the home. Seeing the report on the web site may produce a phone call for more info instead of clicking to the next ad. It's a great sales tool if your home checks out! And if your home needs repairs, then why not fix them on your terms and not the Buyers. After all, it is still your home.

Seller's Inspection To-Do List

Follow this list for best results:

After reviewing the report, decide if you want to repair anything. If repairs were performed, have Bay Area Home Inspection re-inspect the home and provide you with a cleaned up report.
Instruct Walt Fish that you want him to make the report "public" and send you the link (part of the inspector's HomeGauge Services).
Send the link you received from him by email to your agent and instruct the agent to place the link at your web listing on their site.
See the inspection report
Have Walt print off several copies of the report (5 copies) and leave with you to place in your home for potential buyers to take with them. Call him and ask for more copies if you run out. Allowing the potential buyer to take a copy of the report keeps your home with them after they leave. Bay Area Home Inspection won’t mind printing more, if you need them.

Sellers, I’m sure you can see the benefit of a prosepctive buyer looking at properties on the MLS listings or your Realtor’s website and then seeing the link to view the inspection report. What an awsome marketing tool. Of course, we can tweek this so that only qualified or screened buyers will be able to see the report, if you so desire. We can upload it to Doc.Central and then your Realtor can forward the report to those qualified interested buyers. Lets give your home more marketing exposure now!

Walt Fish

Owner of Bay Area Home Inspection, LLC

1-800-935-9384

www.UPsBestInspector.com