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Advantages to the real estate agent:
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.
Agents can recommend certified NACHI 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 provide full-disclosure protection from future legal
claims
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