Free home Inspections ???

Local Inspection Issues Canadian Home Inspectors
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14473698.htm[RIGHT][RIGHT]Tuesday, July 4, 2017

**Propertybid.ca and FCTAnnounce Strategic Offering to Provide Greater Information, Transparency and aBetter Customer Experience to Real Estate Transactions **

Canada’s first fully transparentonline offer negotiation platform, Propertybid.ca announced today that itsplatform will be offering FCT’s Certified Resale Home service.

Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB)July04, 2017
Propertybid’scutting-edge technology platform, created to bring full transparency to theselling and buying of real estate,
will now offer Certified Resale Home’sinnovative pre-listing home inspection service together with a transferable18-month warranty on systems
or itemswithin the home that a home inspector may find difficult to assess.
Real-EstateAgents that use the Propertybid platform to list their client’s home for salewill be able to provide a free home inspection to their client which comes witha
$20,000 warranty that will benefit the buyerof the property.
Propertybid.caand Certified Resale Home are bringing greater transparency into the Canadianreal estate market and changing the way real estate deals get done.
“Becausethe inspection report is generated by a home inspector that we ‘source’ andthere is a value added warranty, trust and credibility is immediate”, says MarkPage,
Head ofthe service.
“AddingCertified Resale Home as a value add to Propertybid.ca’s platform aligns withour underlying motivation to bring to market a service that
truly refines the customer experience andgenerates trust in the process”.
Theconsumer WIN to this strategic offering is sellers fetching top dollar fortheir homes by creating a more welcoming and fair process that will attractmore engaged,
motivatedand trusting buyers, who in turn, will enter the process with the confidencethat they will not overpay, lose out to a slightly blind bid and know exactlywhat they are purchasing condition free.
All this wrapped up with a $20,000 home ownerwarranty.
“Ourmission at Propertybid is to build transparency in the marketplace and providethe best mechanism for selling and buying property.
Our service benefits Realtors, buyers and sellers.Our alignment with Certified Resale Home will provide the highest level oftransparency and integrity to the home buying process,”
says Stephen Moore, CEO of Propertybid.
AboutPropertybid
Propertybid is Canada’s first self-serve online offer negotiation platformdesigned to manage single and multiple offer transactions for the real-estatemarketplace.
Propertybid was created by industry leaderswith a focus on bringing automation, transparency and compliance to the realestate market.
Propertybid’s customer base includes realestate agents, developers, builders, pension funds and financial institutions.
AboutFCT and its Certified Resale Home service
Certified Resale Home services are provided by First Canadian Title CompanyLimited. Founded in 1991 and based in Oakville, Ontario, the FCT group ofcompanies includes
First Canadian Title Company Limited andprovides industry-leading title insurance, default solutions and other realestate related services.
Itscustomer base is comprised of more than 1,250 lenders 43,000 legalprofessionals and 5,000 recovery professionals, as well as real estate agents,mortgage brokers and builders nationwide.
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The art of home sales.

The devil is in the contract wording.

Hope someone posts the contract and checklist.

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All the information can be found here. The only stipulation is that the Inspection MUST be performed by a Amerispec Inspector.

OntarioACHI, the NHICC and PHPIC have all been in touch with First Canadian Title to try to open this up to other trained inspectors but after 2 years of being fobbed off with platitudes, I suspect nothing will happen to change things.

Anyone wanting to query this decidedly one-side practice might like to contact the designer of this program at FCT. His name is Mark Page. His office number is 1-800-307-0370 Ext. 763233, his Cell is 416-277-7395 and his email address is mpage@fct.ca

Maybe if more inspectors called him to query why FCT (a Canadian subsidary of a US company) is restricting their products to Amerispec Canada (A Canadian subsidiary of an American company) we might get somewhere.

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The art of Marketing/Branding to REA and Home Buyers.

Amerispec, parent company in Canada is ServiceMaster
Our Purpose; Strong brands and passionate people – these are the building blocks to providing excellent customer service in our businesses.

Established Home Inspectors know the value of their service and charge accordingly.

Roy, how much information you get for free?
If other associations pursue that avenue, I guess it’s market share they are after.
InterNACHI is the world’s largest accepted certifying body for home inspectors. No need for free home inspections.

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Just because the inspections are free to the consumer under this arrangement, doesn’t make it free. The inspector and First Canadian Title still have to be paid.

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Like you’ve been telling others… “LOOK IT UP YOURSELF”!!

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Touché!