Prepare Your Home for a Building Inspection

Learning how to prepare your home for a pre-sale building inspection may save you money prior to booking your independent building inspector in Melbourne.

Who is Responsible for Getting a Property Condition Report?

Some Melbourne property vendors choose to have the potential buyer pay for and organise the building inspection. If this is you then you’ll find the potential buyer will be under the advice of their property conveyancer. Then, it’s common that a person interested in buying your home will only sign the contract “subject to a building inspection” clause or “subject to a property condition report”.

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The Risk of Leaving Your Building Inspection in the Hands of a Potential Buyer

When you prepare your home for sale in Melbourne, it may be in your best interest to have the property inspected by an independent building inspector. You can be assured of a non-biased and fair assessment to find out what defects there are, if any. Then you can have those building defects fixed and a report to show your real estate agent and potential buyer. This gives them the confidence to proceed with the sale.

If you leave the building inspection in the hands of your prospective buyer, defects may be uncovered that you had not considered and the buyer may back out altogether or it may delay the process.

What you Need to do Prior to Your Home Inspection

Here are some great ways to get your property ready and get a good home inspection.

Create a list

Outline the areas you wish to work on by creating a To Do list based on the points that follow, in this article. Assign priority and timelines. Any work you do now will also assist you with getting your home ready for sale.

Thorough Walk Around

Take the necessary time to safely take a look at your home, walls, floors, gutters, internal structures and note down anywhere you believe you can have areas fixed either by yourself or a qualified trade person.

DIY Fixing Defects

You can save yourself some money by undertaking some of your own repairs. It may be possible to safely clean your gutters. Plastering cracks and repainting areas may also be something you are capable of doing to improve your home.

Spring Clean

It’s important to do a spring clean for both your home inspection and for the selling of your home.

For those of you using your garage as a storage place, the spring clean is vitally important.

Tidy the Garden

An unruly garden can get in the way of your inspector checking the exterior of your home. Hire a gardener and be sure to tell them to clear any narrow sections outside your home. Areas that you may not use or fit into may still need weeding. Ofen this can be one side of your house exterior that is close to the fence line.

If you want to DIY then allow time to hire a skip. Allow plenty of time to organise your garden. This will also be important in general for selling your home and improving the value.

Accessibility

Ensuring your home is free of clutter can save you time and money.  Your building inspector will require access to all areas of your house so they can do their job and provide you with a thorough building condition report.

Electricals

Know your way around the fuse box and use sticky labels if necessary. If there are light switches that don’t work, have an electrician inspect the issue. Replace any light bulbs that are old or not functioning. Showing that all your electricals work will remove any doubt that our building inspector may have about electrical defects.

Get your Documents in Order

Keeping receipts of any work completed by other professionals will help your home inspector.  Always read our Melbourne building inspector report thoroughly. If you have any questions, you can always contact our Home Building Assist pre-sale building inspector for clarification.

When Your House is Ready for a Building Inspector

Be sure to allow a time and book in advance. Conducting Melbourne building inspections is a busy role.

• Book your pre-sale building inspection Melbourne in advance.
• Allow a few hours if you intend to be on site when we conduct the inspection of your property.
• If you’re not going to be home, our property inspector will need for you to arrange a key for access to the internals of your house.

Our building inspector is a registered builder, has completed the QMB Inspector training for additional expertise (even though it is not required in Victoria for building inspectors to have certification) and has 30+ years in the residential building industry. With such solid credentials, you are sure to be provided with a fair and detailed property condition report. You can then choose what to fix as a result.

Feel free to contact us to book a phone call or see our pre-purchase building inspections questions.