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HOME
SELLERS
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here to go to Home Buyers
 With
over 80% of homes being sold with contractual contingencies
requiring a home inspection, it is incumbent upon the
seller to involve the professional help of a Nickelsen
Home Inspections professional.
The
popularity of pre-listing inspections has grown in the
last many years, and for good reason.
Consider
the article that appeared on January 13, 2006 in the
USA Today, titled “Seller Paying for Home Inspection”.
“Now that
the lift is starting to dissipate from the real estate
bubble, home sellers are turning to new strategies to
sell quickly and at the right price. Thus the boomlet
in homeowners hiring inspectors before they put their
homes on the market,” the article said.
Why
the sudden surge?
“The major
motivation is to head off demands for costly price reductions
from buyers. It’s cheaper to fix it than to negotiate
the price down…”
Does
it help the homes sell?
Liz Moore,
a broker in Newport News, Virginia says that “It’s fair
to say that [pre-listing home inspections are] the reason
our listings sell 30% faster than the market average,”
and that inspected houses “consistently sell for a few
thousand dollars more” {1}.
What
you can’t see, or don’t understand… can hurt
you…
When
you decide to sell your home you need to know what things
may be brought to the table when a home inspection is
inevitably done for the buyer.
Besides
the obvious fact that most home owners don’t venture
into crawl spaces or attics, and probably wouldn’t know
what to look for if they did, serious problems may be
present in your home that you are unaware of… Problems
that may take your time and your money
when a potential buyer comes along and their home inspector
finds them.
Find
and solve the problems before hand!
Save
your time, save your money and do what you can to make
sure that the sale of your home goes through smoothly!
Have
a Nickelsen Home Inspection done before you list
your house!
HOME
BUYERS
Click
here to go to Home Sellers
 One
of the most important moments in your life is the purchase
of a home. It is a decision that demands your
emotions, demands your time and demands your financial
involvement.
Nickelsen
Home Inspections, LLC would like the opportunity to
ease your concerns and make sure that your time is for
leisure and your finances are secure.
How?
What
you can’t see, or don’t understand… can hurt
you…
Buyers
that forego the services of a professionally trained,
certified and insured home inspector can be asking for
problems down the road… even tomorrow.
Instead
of solving serious problems, like a possible termite
infestation in the crawl space, prior to the purchase
of a home, there are still some buyers that that forego
the home inspection process only to be left with the
possibility of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars
worth of repairs and wasted time that could be solved
at the time of the transaction.
“But,
my house was built just last year,” someone says.
“Why a home inspection?”
It
may surprise you, but homes that were built “just last
year” can have as many problems—sometimes more—than
houses built two or three decades ago. Whether
it be pools of water flowing into the crawl space from
plumbing that was accidentally not hooked up, electrical
panels that pose a fire hazard, or conditions that are
conducive to wood destroying organisms (like carpenter
ants, or mold), we have seen it all.
The
professionals at Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC are
here to serve as a “conduit for educated real estate
purchases”. Whether your house a year old, or
a hundred years old, call us and we will offer you buying
power, save you time and money, and offer you the peace
of mind that only a Nickelsen Home Inspection
can offer.
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{1}
“Sellers Paying for Home Inspection”, USA
Today (January 13, 2006).
Available on the internet,
please click here (Feb. 1, 2006). Also, while
we tend to emphasize the benefits of including a real
estate agent in the purchase and sale of a home,
www.soldbyowner.com
recommends a pre-listing inspection as the #1 tip to
save the seller money! |
