Advantages to the seller:

• The seller can choose a certified InterNACHI 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 to any items of immediate 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 the 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.
• A seller inspection reveals problems ahead of time, which 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 re-negotiations.
• 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 last-minute problem.
• The report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.

Advantages to the Real Estate agent:

• Agents can recommend certified InterNACHI 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 buyers’ inspections.
• Sellers can have inspectors correct any misstatements in the reports before they are generated.
• The 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.
• Reports hosted online entice potential buyers to tour the homes. 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.
• The reports might relieve prospective buyers’ 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 re-negotiations.
• 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 last-minute problems.
• Reports provide full-disclosure protection from future legal claims.

Advantages to the home buyer:

• 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 re-negotiations.
• 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.