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Hi, this is Gina Mullen with Gina Mullen Realty and I\'m here to answer all of your real estate questions and give you some tips and tricks. So today we\'re going to talk about a repair amendment.

So this is a document that the buyer gives to the seller during the option period. They are usually items that are found on an inspection report that the buyer has done and they are requesting the sellers to either do the repairs or offer a monetary credit to be given at closing. Some of the items that we see frequently on our inspection reports and repair amendments are items and issues with the roof, with the pool, with the HVAC system, water heaters, and electrical.

So if you haven\'t had your roof checked in a while, now would be a good time to have someone check a roof. We have a roof vendor who will come out and we\'ll do a roof inspection for us at no charge. That lets us know if there\'s any problems with the roof. It is always better to handle that before the house goes on the market than during the repair amendment. It may require something as simple as a couple of shingles need to be replaced or it might be recommended that an insurance claim be placed before the house is put on the market. But again, it\'s always better to have this checked out before we go on to the market.

Next would be the pool. We see a lot of issues with the pool. Usually the pool heater, which isn\'t used very frequently down here in Texas, but just like anything mechanical, if you don\'t use it, it\'s less likely to work when you try to get to use it. We would want to make sure that we knew that before the house went on the market. Any cracks or leaks in the pool, we are usually better off if we find those out before we go to repair amendment.

The HVAC system, the HVAC system needs to be operating within temperature differentials. If it\'s a resale home, no one is expecting that a new air conditioner be placed in the home unless it\'s not functioning. But as long as it\'s tuned up and it\'s functioning properly, then that would not be considered an item that would be eligible for a repair amendment because the spirit of the repair amendment is for items that are not functioning properly to be repaired or replaced. If an air conditioning unit has been tuned up and it is functioning within temperature differentials than it is considered functioning.

Next would be water heaters. We get a lot of questions about water heaters. "How old are the water heaters?" We see a lot of the emergency valves that at inspection don\'t pass, so it would be a good idea to get the hot water heater checked out too to make sure that it\'s functioning, that there\'s no rust in the pan, or anything else that needs to be addressed before you list your home.

Last but not least is electrical. We want to make sure that we don\'t have any double tapping, that the amperage that\'s in the circuit panel matches what it needs to. Sometimes it\'s too big, sometimes it\'s too small, sometimes we have wires that are not grounded properly and these would all be items that we would want to get checked out beforehand that way we don\'t have to deal with it when the buyer puts in a repair amendment. And if it is requested during the repair amendment, we already have the documentation to show that we\'ve had it taken care of.

So this is Gina Mullen with Gina Mullen Realty, giving you tips and tricks on what to get checked out before you list your home.

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