#1 Tip for Avoiding Costly Surprises When Selling Your Dunedin Home
June 19th, 2008 categories: Selling Tampa Bay Homes FAST
Funny, but the one thing that’s probably the least expensive and the simplest to address when selling your Dunedin home is the one most often overlooked by sellers. What’s the #1 Tip?
Get a home inspection done right before you put your home on the market!
An inspection will uncover previously unknown problems - which are often just minor - affording you the opportunity to make the needed repairs. Oftentimes these are repairs that you can make yourself or very inexpensively.
You’re probably wondering why not just let the buyer make the repairs? Here’s 6 reasons why savvy sellers take this extra step:
1) Even the smallest repairs can send buyers running for the Pinellas County hills (wait .. there are no hills here?) and off to the next home to make an offer. We’ve seen buyers run from homes for the silliest reasons.
2) More buyers will look at your home! We can market your home to buyers confidently and advertise the fact that there’s a ”clean home inspection report available”. Stand out from the crowd as most sellers overlook this simple technique.
3) Get to the closing table quicker. Often times buyers will accept the result of your home inspection and waive their contingency to inspect it themselves.
4) Avoid dead rats. See this disgusting picture of a home inspection nightmare. Need we say more?
5) Avoid costly negotiations on repairs. Buyers will shave THOUSANDS of dollars off of a purchase offer for the slightest little repair. Even if repairs can be negotiated during the contract, if the buyer’s requesting the repairs, they are most often calling the shots and getting the estimates. They’ll want you to hire a licensed contractor to fix something you could have fixed yourself.
Save tons of $$ and go out to a nice Palm Harbor restaurant or spend a day at the Innisbrook Golf Resort spa instead.
6) Peace of mind. Selling a Pinellas County Home in today’s market is stressful enough without worrying about the ‘what ifs’. We haven’t met a seller yet who is relaxed throughout the buyer’s home inspection contingency period. Feel confident that your home is in tip-top shape and that you will soon be on the the next great phase of your life.
Two of our favorite inpsectors servicing Pinellas homes and Pasco and Hillsborough too, are Pillar to Post and Homeworks Inspections.
That being said, we’ve got a few more favorites and they are so good they don’t even have websites - so you’ll want to contact us.
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