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When you have an accepted offer, one common contingency is that the home buyer hire and have an inspector or inspectors come to the property.
It is important for you, as the home seller, to remember that the inspector is paid to discover and inspect. The inspector will generally find issues --- conditions that the seller may not know about, or conditions that the seller has lived with for so long that they have forgotton about them or them may seem unimportant. Does every electrical receptacle work? Maybe not. And maybe you, the home seller, put furniture in front of that non-working receptacle and then forgot about it.
Most home sellers are nervous about the buyer's home inspection. In a transaction, the buyer's inspection will discover issues. Your real estate agent can be a real asset during this process.
If you agree to make repairs as a result of the inspection, ask your real estate agent how to best handle the repairs. Make sure you get any agreement with the buyer in writing.
You might want to read the information we have for home buyers about the home inspection.
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