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There are advantages of a home buyer warranty when marketing and selling your home. You may have heard of these for pre-owned homes, homes that are older, and obviously, homes that are not new construction. These are 1-year insurance plans that give the buyer a peace of mind.

Which brings me to the first advantage:

• When marketing your home, if you list that you’re giving the buyer a Home Buyers Warranty with the sale of the home, then immediately, they have some peace of mind and may choose your home over others just for that reason alone.

The second advantage is:

• During inspections, buyers are a lot more likely to be less nit-picky when asking you to make repairs, because after all, if there’s a question about the furnace or the hot water heater, it can most easily be addressed by a service or a cleaning. Then the buyer figures if anything goes wrong with it in the first year, they’ll get a whole new one replaced under the policy. It’s a lot more effective when it comes time to sell an older home or a home with some older equipment in it.

The final advantage is after closing:

• If something goes wrong, the buyer is a lot less likely to call you or your Realtor about why you were hiding the leak in the dishwasher or the garbage disposal that only work twice since they moved in. They’re more likely to call the Home Buyers Warranty company and get a new one very inexpensively, if, at any cost, at all.

There’s a lot of advantages to these and I strongly recommend in today’s market that sellers consider these because they give you a little bit of edge versus your competition. I don’t sell them, Realtors don’t sell them, we don’t get any money for recommending them, we just think they’re a good idea a lot of the time. Why wait until the buyer asks? Why not just put it in place upfront and then it makes a negotiation go a lot more smoothly.

I’m sure your Realtor has a couple of these companies they’ll recommend, I certainly do, and would be happy to talk with you about it further in my free seller 1-hour consultation if you’re thinking about selling your home. If you’d like to talk with me, you can call me at 303-526-2606 or to get more information, just email me:  Sam [at] SamWilsonGroup.com. You can also visit my website  www.SamWilsonGroup.com for lots of information and free reports.

Until next time