How to Keep a Home Inspection From Costing You $10,000 After You Accept an Offer

Home sellers, I have a lot of examples of this particular playbook running for my sellers and it working out splendidly.

but sometimes you know you can run everything and you get yourself yourselves set up so that you do get offers without inspections and you run this playbook to the letter and still buyers maybe your best buyer if you're in a bidding more for example shows up and just they're just that kind of person they have to do the look that's okay because no matter how this unfolds if you follow the prep playbook that i'm going to give you it won't matter Yes, you're going to be far more likely to invite offers with no inspections, but occasionally some buyer will still ask.

But when they do, if you've done it correctly, no worries.

Okay.

So this seller, we're going to call them Linda and Jason.

We had a really good pre-selling strategy session where they had time.

They were getting ready to sell their property.

They're relocating and they're actually liquidating several properties at the same time.

They have some rentals.

And so we're running this playbook on all of their properties one at a time.

Well, this first one just happened to be the house they are living in, the one they call home, because it was the biggest piece of the puzzle they needed to solve in order to move forward, meaning that either they could go ahead and move into their new home or they could just slip into one of their empty rentals while they get that one ready.

We just had a lot of flexibility on time.

So that was certainly an ingredient we needed and we exploited in this case.

So before I ever talked to them, They were in the habit of keeping meticulous records.

But even if you're not, that's okay.

This still works.

But if you happen to be one of those people who keeps every receipt, every work order, every time you have your HVAC service, you've got a copy of it.

You got a nice little folder or, you know, in the modern age, maybe you're scanning it into a OneDrive or a Google Drive or Evernote or whatever it is you use, but you've got copies of everything.

Now, I'm not a big, as much as my desk looks like a cloud of paper, which you can't see it, thank goodness, through the magic of editing and zooming.

Truthfully, I'm not a paper guy.

I don't like paper.

I would rather just scan it and be done with it.

So however you get there, if you can get some meticulous records, this helps because the thickest file wins at the end of the day.

The other thing they did that made this whole playbook work, and this is definitely part of it, is they did a full-blown pre-sale home inspection.

Now, I've talked ad nauseum about how home inspections work, but in this case, you would contact a local home inspector and just let them know, hey, I'm getting ready to put my house on the market.