You prepared your home for listing and had it staged. It looks beautiful and you get a great offer right away. But your contract price can be seriously eroded during inspections, often for items that could have easily and inexpensively been fixed on a seller's time and dime, before listing. Buyers can be fearful and take the word of their contractors, so studies have shown they overestimate the cost of repairs by as much as three times. They can also think repairs are worse than they actually are and request significant amounts of credit to address, especially if they think they are assuming any kind of risk. Worse - the buyer may even walk leaving you with a failed option period and an inspection report to disclose. This can wipe tens of thousands of dollars off the home.
Much of this is avoidable by understanding the condition of your home from a buyer's perspective, identifying those potential issues which could lower the price or kill the deal and addressing these issues, before you list. Buyers are more willing to pay a premium for a home that's already been vetted for issues and the transparency provided by the inspection builds trust and confidence that the home was well maintained.
Fiona has a team of inspectors who can either do a formal inspection with a written report. Or they will walk around the home and point out issues verbally. If you don't want to go that far, Fiona also has a pre-inspection checklist of those items which routinely come up in inspections so you can check your home yourself.
