Pre-Listing Home Inspections

Eventually your buyers are going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. Having a prelisting home inspection performed ahead of time helps in many other ways:

1. It allows you to see your home through the eyes of a critical third-party.
2. It helps you to price your home realistically.
3. It permits you to make repairs ahead of time so that ...
   1. Defects won't become negotiating stumbling blocks later.
   2. It reduces the possibility of a delayed closing, which may adversely affect your purchase of a subsequent home. 
   3. You have the time to get reasonably priced contractors or make the repairs yourself, if qualified.
4. It may encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
5. It may alert you of items of immediate personal concern, such as a fire hazard or active termite infestation.
6. It may relieve prospect's concerns and suspicions.
7. It reduces your liability by adding professional supporting documentation to your disclosure statement.
8. It may alert you to immediate safety issues before agents and visitors tour your home.

Copies of the inspection report along with receipts for any repairs should be made available to potential buyers.

Miller Home Inspection serves real estate buyers and sellers in the Western Washington, Puget sound region, to include the greater Seattle area, in the following areas, Snohomish County, King County, Skagit County, Island County, and Camano Island.  The inspections performed are consistent with the National Association of Certified Home Inspector (NACHI) Standards of Practice, and are in compliance with Washington State Laws regarding Structural Pest Inspections. All home inspections include a full pest inspection for termites, carpenter ants, wood boring beetles, moisture ants, and fungal wood rot decay (often mistakenly called dryrot).  Home inspections are offered in the following locations: Camano Island, Stanwood, Arlington, Marysville, Everett, Granite Falls, Darrington, Snohomish, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Edmonds, Bothell, Woodinville, Monroe, Sultan, Startup, Gold Bar, Duvall, Redmond, Sammamish, Bellevue, Seattle, Woodway, Mount Vernon, La Conner, Burlington.