Eventually your buyers are going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. The author points out that having an inspection performed ahead of time helps in many other ways:

• It allows you to see your home through the eyes of a critical third-party.

• It helps you to price your home realistically.

• It permits you to make repairs ahead of time so that defects won't become negotiating stumbling blocks later. 

• You have the time to get reasonably priced contractors or make the repairs yourself, if qualified.

• It may encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.

• It may alert you of items of immediate personal concern, such as radon gas

• It may relieve prospect's concerns and suspicions.

• Alerting you to immediate safety issues before agents and visitors tour your home.

Copies of the inspection report along with receipts for any repairs should be made available to potential buyers.

"Note: Just as no two home inspectors and no two reporting systems are alike, no two inspection reports, even if performed on the same property at the same time, are alike. This pre-listing inspection report was performed for my client, the home seller, with the cooperation and assistance of my client/home seller. It assumes full disclosure on the part of my client/home seller. My client may choose to share my report with others, but it was performed solely for my client. And although Master Inspections performs all inspections and writes all reports objectively without regard to the client's personal interests, additional inspections, which of course would reveal and report matters differently, should be considered."