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Inspect One Home Inspection Services offers home
inspection services for buyers, sellers and realtors. Inspect One
performs private buyer inspections, city required inspections,
inspections for sellers, and inspections for realtors, time-of-sale
evaluations, truth-in-housing evaluations in the following communities:
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, Richfield,
Saint Louis Park, Chaska, Chanhassen, Minnetonka, Hopkins, Shakopee,
Prior Lake, Savage, Burnsville, Eagan, Lakeville, Mendota Heights, South
Saint Paul, Maplewood, Cottage Grove, Woodbury, Hastings, Stillwater,
Lake Elmo, Roseville, Blaine, Fridley, White Bear Lake, Moundsview,
Maple Grove, Osseo, New Brighton, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Anoka,
Ramsey, Zimmerman, Princeton, Saint MIchael, Albertville, Shorewood,
Plymouth, Medina, Wayzata, Long Lake, Orono,
Getting Your Seller Ready for Inspection
I. When you first list the property
• When you prepare the home for sale by staging it, you should also prepare it for inspection. Give your sellers the prelisting checklist found at the bottom of this page, with tips and ideas for getting the home in tip-top shape. Once you sell the property, this checklist will help the home pass inspection.
II. Utilize SureList
• Our innovative SureList marketing and inspection program will ensure your listing will be set apart from other homes on the market.
• The SureList pre-inspection assures full disclosure to all parties involved and allows you to list the property at a realistic price point based on the home’s true condition.
• SureList reduces negotiations or even eliminates renegotiating after the buyer’s inspection because the home’s condition has already been disclosed.
• SureList allows the seller to improve the property’s condition and update the prelisting inspection on-site through re-inspections.
• Your listing becomes more desirable than others on the market because it has been pre-inspected and buyers can see the home’s strengths and weaknesses.
• You listing becomes more desirable than others on the market because buyers are able to perform a full review and walkthrough with the SureList inspector on-site at a cost much lower than a full inspection.
III. Once you have accepted an offer and it is time for the buyer’s inspection, request
a few courtesies on the inspector’s behalf:
• Ask your client to move items for unobstructed access to the attic, the furnace, electrical panel, crawl space and other important home components. Not having access to these areas can postpone or delay getting results and inspection releases if the inspector has to return.
• Leave a key or instructions for access to the garage, porch or any other locked outbuilding.
• Cage or kennel pets to assure they don’t get out of the home during the inspection.
• Request the seller treat the inspection as a showing and leave the premises. The most thorough inspection is one completed without distractions. Sellers can become angry or hurt when negatives are pointed out.
Finally, let your sellers know most homes have some concerns and few have the kind of concerns that send buyers running. The inspection process doesn’t have to be scary. Please ask your buyers or sellers to call us if they have any questions.
