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• Seller inspections allow the inspector to catch inspection jobs upstream, ahead of real estate transactions and the competition.
  

• Seller inspections are easier to schedule and are not under the time constraints of sales agreement's inspection contingencies.
  

• Working for sellers is typically less stressful than working for buyers about to make the purchase of their lifetimes.
  

• Sellers can alert the inspector to problems that should be included in the report, answer questions about their homes, and provide seller's disclosure statements
  

• Repairs of problems found during seller inspections often necessitate the need for re-inspections by the inspector.
  

• Seller inspections put a sample copy of the inspector's product, the report, in the hands of many potential buyers who will need a local inspector soon.
  

• Seller inspections puts a sample copy of the inspector's product, the report, in the hands of many local buyer's agents that tour the home.
  

• The inspector is credited, in part, with the smoothness of the real estate transaction by buyer, seller and agents on both sides.
  

• The liability of the inspector is reduced by putting more time between the date of the inspection and the move-in date of the buyers.
  

• The liability of the inspector is reduced because the inspector's clients are not buying the properties inspected, but rather moving out of them.
  

• The buyer might insist on hiring the seller's inspector to produce a fresh report since the seller's inspector is already familiar with the home.
  

• Seller inspections provide inspectors opportunities to showoff their services to listing agents.
  

• Seller inspections provide examples to the listing agent of each home, which might encourage those agents to have other listings pre-inspected by the inspector.
  

• Most sellers are local buyers and so many sellers hire the inspector again to inspect the homes they are moving to.
  

• The seller can choose a certified NACHI and ASHI inspector rather than be at the mercy of the buyer's choice of inspector
  

• The seller can schedule the inspections at the seller's convenience.
  

• It might alert the seller of any items of immediate personal concern, such as radon gas or active termite infestation.
  

• The seller can assist the inspector during the inspection, something normally not done during a buyer's inspection.
  

• The seller can have inspector correct any misstatements in the inspection report before it is generated.
  

• The report can help the seller realistically price the home if problems exist.
  

• The report can help the seller substantiate a higher asking price if problems don't exist or have been corrected.
  

• Might make the home show better.
  

• Gives the seller time to make repairs and shop for competitive contractors.
  

• Permits the seller to attach repair estimates or paid invoices to the inspection report.
  

• Removes over-inflated buyer procured estimates from the negotiation table.
  

• The report might alert the seller to any immediate safety issues found, before agents and visitors tour the home.
  

• The report provides a third-party, unbiased opinion to offer to potential buyers.
  

• A seller inspection permits a clean home inspection report to be used as a marketing tool.
  

• A seller inspection is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on the part of the seller.
  

• The report might relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.
  

• A seller inspection lightens negotiations and 11th - hour renegotiations.
  

• The report might encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
  

• The deal is less likely to fall apart the way they often do when a buyer's inspection unexpectedly reveals a problem, last minute.
  

• The report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
  

• Agents can recommend certified NACHI and ASHI inspectors as opposed to being at the mercy of buyer's choices in inspectors.
  

• Sellers can schedule the inspections at seller's convenience with little effort on the part of agents.
  

• Sellers can assist inspectors during the inspections, something normally not done during buyer's inspections.
  

• Sellers can have inspectors correct any misstatements in the reports before they are generated.
  

• Reports help sellers see their homes through the eyes of a critical, third-party, thus making sellers more realistic about asking price.
  

• Agents are alerted to any immediate safety issues found, before other agents and potential buyers tour the home.
  

• Repairs made ahead of time might make homes show better.
  

• The reports provide third-party, unbiased opinions to offer to potential buyers.
  

• Clean reports can be used as marketing tools to help sell the homes.
  

• Reports might relieve prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.
  

• Seller inspections eliminate buyer's remorse that sometimes occurs just after an inspection.
  

• Seller inspections reduce the need for negotiations and 11th - hour renegotiations.
  

• Seller inspections relieve the agent of having to hurriedly procure repair estimates or schedule repairs.
  

• The reports might encourage buyers to waive their inspection contingencies.
  

• Deals are less likely to fall apart the way they often do when buyer's inspections unexpectedly reveal problems, last minute.
  

• Reports provide full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.
  

• The inspection is done already.
  

• The inspection is paid for by the seller.
  

• The report provides a more accurate, third-party view of the condition of the home prior to making an offer.
  

• A seller inspection eliminates surprise defects.
  

• Problems are corrected or at least acknowledged prior to making an offer on the home.
  

• A seller inspection reduces the need for negotiations and 11th - hour renegotiations.
  

• The report might assist in acquiring financing.
  

• A seller inspection allows the buyer to sweeten the offer without increasing the offering price by waiving inspections.