Right after your home goes into contract, you’re excited and ready to finalize the sale; however, before you can get to the closing table, you and your house have to make it through the inspection period. For the homeowners, this can be a nerve-wracking time of uncertainty, where you start to question how your house will hold up to closer scrutiny. Here are a few tips that will help you make sure that you’re doing everything you can to get your house through the inspection period.
DO Keep your house in ‘ready-to-show†condition
After days or even weeks of working hard to keep your home in tip-top shape, it can be tempting to let the clutter start to stack up once you have a buyer; nonetheless, you should strive to keep your home looking as good as the day the buyers saw it. Excited buyers often come along to the inspections – sometimes bringing kids or other family members along to show off their new home. And the last thing you want when you’re this close to selling is for them to start feeling any buyer’s remorse when they see your home looking less pristine.
DON’T Stick around for the inspection
While you may be curious to see the inspection on your home, staying at your home during a home inspection could have some negative impacts on the sale of your home. At best, you’ll make the future homeowners feel a little uncomfortable by lingering around while they look for issues with your home. But there can be more significant effects on the deal too, such as the buyers thinking your presence influenced the home’s inspection report.
DO Be accommodating
From scheduling equipment deliveries to coordinating multiple busy schedules, it can be difficult to get an inspection completed on a house. And the buyers may be doing some secondary inspections in addition to the primary home inspection, such as a roof inspection, radon inspection, or termite inspection. In order to get your house sold as quickly as possible, you will need to be as flexible as your schedule allows and avoid adding more complication to the process.
DON’T Overthink the Buyer’s Request to Remedy
Getting a list of everything that’s wrong with your house can be daunting. Before you start to panic, just try to keep in mind that the Buyer’s Request to remedy is just that – a request. And a request written from the perspective of someone who could potentially gain a lot of updates to their new home or save some money if they enough significant issues. When you get a Buyer’s Request to Remedy, the first thing you should do is take a deep breath. Next, call your realtor and have them look at it from an expert’s point of view.
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