How a Cluttered Garage Can Affect a Home Sale

If you’re selling your house, an overly-cluttered garage can affect the process in two different ways.

The first is by prolonging the general home inspection. If you have a ton of items along the walls, that will make it extremely difficult for the home buyer to conduct the inspection. They will most likely have to reinspect the property after you’ve removed those items. This can become an issue if you have a short inspection time period that’s been requested because the buyer will ask for more time until you actually clear everything out.

Inspectors need room to do their jobs.

The second is by obstructing termite inspections. If a termite inspection has been requested for the garage, the termite inspector has to be able to poke into the garage walls to check for subterranean and dry wood termites. If they can’t do that and then report that they were unable to complete the inspection because of too many personal items impeding their work space, the buyer will once again request that the inspection contingency not be removed until everything is cleared out.

If you’re putting your home on the market, you need to make sure there’s enough room in your garage for the home inspector and the termite inspector to do their jobs.

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