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Today's topic is about pre-inspections and why sellers in Vancouver need to know about doing a pre-inspection before they list their home.

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All right, folks today. We have David Asselin from Inspect Canada and he's going to talk to you about inspecting your home before you put it on the market.

So David welcome. Well, thank you for having me tell us why should a seller in Vancouver consider doing a pre-inspection before they sell their home.

The fact is the house is going to be inspected. Anyways, we know a fact that almost every homes are getting inspected by the buyer and it makes total sense.

It gives them protection. They learn about the home and everything else.

So if you already know that the home is going to get inspected then you might as well do it at the beginning and end of the transaction. This allows you to fix some of these items that could become renegotiation item later on or potentially could make the sell the house difficult. How often do we get in the attic and we see pest activity in there that if they knew about it, they could have started the process months ago. And now it wouldn't be a problem. How often do we see active leaks things that if they got the place pretty inspected they would know it at the beginning they could get those things fixed and also they could get multiple quotes. They could take their time. Sometimes the owners could fix it on them themselves. It'd be a lot cheaper, but if they don't then when the buyer inspector finds all of these items, this is all surprises that were not Known at the time of putting the offer.

So then it becomes a renegotiation item. It creates delays, stress and sometimes it kills the deal.

Yeah, and in my 10 years of selling real estate.

I've just found out about this concept about pre inspecting a home

and I've actually lost deals because the buyers found in the Attic some sort of a small little mold, which we could have nipped it in the bud if we did a pre-inspection at a time, so absolutely I'm really excited about this the service that you're providing David.

It well, I mean it's been helping a lot of homeowners selling their homes. We get tons of feedbacks from previous sellers saying that hey this was the greatest things they could have done to sell this home it gave them the opportunity to learn also about their homes. There's a lot of people that they don't even know that they need to do certain maintenance on their homes. And now they have moisture behind the shower tiles or these kind of things. So when we find these things ahead of time, then it really gives them the opportunity to Fix it before it creates any kinds of problems.

And how long have you been offering this service for?

Well, I've been licensed for about four years, but I developed this program about two years ago and about a year ago or so. We really started specializing in it. We're really the only home inspection that specializes in seller inspection in order to facilitate the selling the house and David in Vancouver. Is this something that the seller pays the cost for is the real estate agent that yeah, it really depends in those. Cases a lot of homeowners calls us before they put their homes on the market. So they don't even have an agent and in most cases.

Yes, they do pay for it. Right? It is in their best advantage because the renegotiation we see it all the time, you know a couple days ago shower had moisture behind the tiles.

It was a little soft. They got $5,000 off for that when really it probably only cost $1,000 to fix it.

So, you know, all of these things we see examples all the time and where we got so much great feedback. So we're really happy about the system. You know, the buyer inspection is needed.

It has to be there. It's got its place the buyer needs to be protected because when we're doing a seller inspection the buyers not protected. This is only done for the seller and in most cases the buyer do get a hold of that report and then they can use it as a guide and then if they give their own home inspection, then they can compare and see and then it only reinforced trust and credibility because now they can see that both reports are there. they go, Wow. Everybody is honest here and been so this is great.

Have you had any great success stories in your year of offering this service from sellers?

We understand that, you know, the faster that the home sales and the less, you know, the less stress. The seller has it makes everybody happy and I've seen it in many cases where the listing agent has offered to pay for the pre-listing inspections for the seller because they understand that it will help sell this place and you know, Me especially I mean you can do it on brand new homes, but on older homes like for example last week. We did a pre-listing inspections on a on a home that is about almost a hundred years old. It had knob + tubes in there had all kinds of things that you know, it will create problems when the buyer inspector goes through this and then comes up with their findings. So it gave them the opportunity to get an electrician there. Look at the whole system fix a few things and now we'll be basically trouble-free.

All right there. David that's some amazing content for our audience here in Vancouver. So how does one contact you actually there's multiple ways to get in touch with us.

All you need to do is to go to inspect.ca or you can just Google inspect Canada. I'll give you an opportunity to see all our top five star reviews on Google at the same time and then by phone 778- 683-7147. A good place to go is our Instagram page at instagram.com/inspectcanada. There's hundreds of educational videos that we put together on a daily basis and hundreds of pictures of happy clients our Instagram Pages, which is growing at every day. That's great stuff. Thank you very much for coming up by to our show.

Thank you so much. There you have it folks David Asselin from inspect.ca.

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