Pre-Inspection Reports Help Salt Lake County Listings
Stand Out and Saves Time, Money
If you are readying your home for sale this spring or summer, one
of my favorite tactics to set your property apart from other Utah listings in Salt Lake and neighboring communities, is to order a pre-inspection.
If you’re not familiar with the term, a
pre-inspection is a less detailed, less expensive visual inspection designed to
report major conditions certain to be noted in the final.
Why add this extra
expense? Won’t buyers ultimately get their own inspection?
Yes, they will. But the purpose is not to replace a final
inspection — it’s to attract more offers and hasten a final sale by minimizing
re-negotiation.
Picture yourself as a
prospective buyer. Listings which headline the availability of a pre-inspection
report automatically seem to be offered by someone who is proud of their
property’s condition and unafraid of what the final inspection will reveal.
To
skittish prospective buyers, it serves to lessen the "fear of the
unknown" that can make buyers hesitate before writing an offer. If there
were a formula, it would look something like:
Eliminating objections = Attracting more offers
Pre-inspected listings let you document major conditions
that have either been addressed or left for the future owner to remediate as he
or she sees fit.
By noting how your asking price includes precise dollar
allowances for named conditions, you display openness and conviction in the
basis for your pricing.
Local listings written after a pre-inspection are a lot
more likely minimize last-minute re-negotiation: if you have ever been asked at
the last minute to knock off $20k from
an accepted offer, you know the value of that.
If you plan to add your own property to the Salt Lake City and Beyond...listings any time this year, my job is to
see that it brings you top dollar.
Contact me today to talk over the way we
will get that done!
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