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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.

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What are the advantages of a home buyer warranty and how you can make sure that you get one when you go to purchase a used home?

Sure, all builders that are offering new construction, they give you a home warranty that includes:

• a 1-Year Bumper-to-Bumper (if you will)

• a 2-Year on the Foundation

• another 10 Years on the Structure.

That’s typically what you get from a builder on new construction.

However, if you’re going to buy a re-sale home (a home that’s been lived in for a while), then usually, those warranties are not transferable and may be well past when they were available anyway if you’re buying an older home for example.

There’s something called a ‘Home Buyer Warranty.’  There are several fine companies out there that offer them. You should ask your agent who they recommend. The company I recommend is fairly reasonable on price, and for a little over $400, you can be assured that if anything goes wrong with anything from:

• an electrical outlet,

• to a plumbing leak,

• all the way to a broken furnace, or

• hot water heater,

Then you’re going to be covered for that and you can get it replaced in your first year of owning a home.

Also, after your first year, you’ll have an opportunity to renew for 1 more year to get 2 years of total coverage. These are great plans. They only cost you about $55 per service call. And, if the furnace is completely unusable, they’ll replace the whole furnace for that $55 service call.

Same thing with:

• a hot water heater,

• appliances,

• electrical problems,

• plumbing problems,

• (You name it! It’s covered.)

Now, it doesn’t cover things like structures or roofs or foundations.  But that’s Ok, because you’re going to have your inspections done before you purchase the home anyway. On the major items, you’ll get those addressed by the seller, before you buy.

So, if you’d like more information about a home warranty and how I’ll guarantee that you’ll get one of these when you buy a re-sale home, just give me a call at 303-526-2606 or email me Sam [at] SamWilsonGroup.com or in the meantime, you can always search for homes on the best Denver home search website www.EasyDenverHomeSearch.com Search like a Realtor, anytime you want, for free!

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