Long Island Home Inspector Blogs

Most people don't realize the benefit of doing sellers inspections.

A Long Island home inspection, Queens home inspection, Brooklyn home inspection, Nassau home inspection, and Suffolk, inspections is typically performed for the buyer (99% of the time). Ironically, if you look at the big picture, buyers are negotiating on a product that they do not yet know. Often, the result is a second round of negotiations after the inspection occurs. This makes the transactions more difficult to complete and can often result in killing the deal.

However, if the seller has an inspection performed before the house is put on the market they will likely understand the issues that will come up during the buyers inspection. In addition, the seller will have the opportunity to make certain corrections to the property that may make sense as a result of having performed the sellers inspection.

Lets say we are working on behalf of the seller performing a Long Island home inspection and we discover that there is a plumbing leak under the kitchen sink and some mold has developed.  Our suggestion will be to repair the plumbing leak and to eliminate the mold immediately because even though it it something simple to accomplish, it may turn off the buyer or result in a price negotiation. Why not deal with it ahead of time before it becomes an issue during the buyers inspection.

Another added benefit in doing a Nassau County home inspection on behalf of the seller is that it gives the seller the opportunity to brag about improvements in the inspection report. For example, photographs can be taken of the updated kitchen, bathrooms and the finished basement. We can highlight the fact that a new boiler and hot water heater has been installed. New siding, roofing, sidewalk, front stoop, or a new main electrical service has been installed. All of these things can be highlighted in the home inspection report; in essence, the home inspection report can be a marketing tool.