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	Derik Bruhn
	Clark County, Vancouver Home Inspector
	Battle Ground, WA — Nickelsen Home Inspections
	http://www.nickelsenhomeinspections.com/
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AboutNickelsen Home Inspections

Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC., while relatively new as an individual inspection firm, is the climax of converging Northwest experience in the real estate professions. For the last couple years we have been the fastest growing home inspection company in SW Washington.

Serving over seven counties, and able to satisfy your inspection needs seven days a week, our home inspection professionals bring almost two decades of home inspection, fire safety and playground inspection experience, over two decades of contracting and construction expertise and the constant education it takes to stay on top of this field into each and every home we examine.

Licensed, insured and bonded, Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC understands the decisions which go into purchasing or selling real estate first hand and offers to join in helping make your experience a positive one.

We believe that our client’s real estate decisions are very personal and we wish to accent that sentiment with the personal touch of our locally owned and operated business.

As long established residents of SW Washington, and proud home owners ourselves, we offer the personal touch of understanding the emotional and financial decisions that go into purchasing a home. We, along with the real estate professionals you are working with, will be there even after our initial service is over to answer any questions or concerns you may have.

The personal touch of computer generated reports delivered on site in an understandable format, which we will go over with you, face to face, will better acquaint you with your home—we will inspect your house as if we were purchasing the home ourselves!

Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC has found success in SW Washington on the firm ground of our personal touch and a history of trust—trust which we want to earn from you!

We would like to thank you for choosing Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC when you make that next real estate move.

And to the thousands of people we have worked with in the last many years: thank you for the greatest compliment that we have received—a referral of our services to your family, friends and clients. We are grateful for your trust!

From all of us at Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC

To Home Buyers

One of the most important moments in your life is the purchase of a home. It is a decision that demands your emotions, demands your time and demands your financial involvement. Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC would like the opportunity to ease your concerns and make sure that your time is for leisure and your finances are secure. How? What you can’t see, or don’t understand… can hurt you… Buyers that forego the services of a professionally trained, certified and insured home inspector can be asking for problems down the road… even tomorrow. Instead of solving serious problems, like a possible termite infestation in the crawl space, prior to the purchase of a home, there are still some buyers that that forego the home inspection process only to be left with the possibility of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars worth of repairs and wasted time that could be solved at the time of the transaction. “But, my house was built just last year,” someone says. “Why a home inspection?” It may surprise you, but homes that were built “just last year” can have as many problems—sometimes more—than houses built two or three decades ago. Whether it be pools of water flowing into the crawl space from plumbing that was accidentally not hooked up, electrical panels that pose a fire hazard, or conditions that are conducive to wood destroying organisms (like carpenter ants, or mold), we have seen it all. The professionals at Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC are here to serve as a “conduit for educated real estate purchases”. Whether your house a year old, or a hundred years old, call us and we will offer you buying power, save you time and money, and offer you the peace of mind that only a Nickelsen Home Inspection can offer. To Home Sellers With over 80% of homes being sold with contractual contingencies requiring a home inspection, it is incumbent upon the seller to involve the professional help of a Nickelsen Home Inspections professional. The popularity of pre-listing inspections has grown in the last many years, and for good reason. Consider the article that appeared on January 13, 2006 in the USA Today, titled “Seller Paying for Home Inspection”. “Now that the lift is starting to dissipate from the real estate bubble, home sellers are turning to new strategies to sell quickly and at the right price. Thus the boomlet in homeowners hiring inspectors before they put their homes on the market,” the article said. Why the sudden surge? “The major motivation is to head off demands for costly price reductions from buyers. It’s cheaper to fix it than to negotiate the price down…” Does it help the homes sell? Liz Moore, a broker in Newport News, Virginia says that “It’s fair to say that [pre-listing home inspections are] the reason our listings sell 30% faster than the market average,” and that inspected houses “consistently sell for a few thousand dollars more” {1}. What you can’t see, or don’t understand… can hurt you… When you decide to sell your home you need to know what things may be brought to the table when a home inspection is inevitably done for the buyer. Besides the obvious fact that most home owners don’t venture into crawl spaces or attics, and probably wouldn’t know what to look for if they did, serious problems may be present in your home that you are unaware of… Problems that may take your time and your money when a potential buyer comes along and their home inspector finds them. Find and solve the problems before hand! Save your time, save your money and do what you can to make sure that the sale of your home goes through smoothly! Have a Nickelsen Home Inspection done before you list your house! To Real Estate ProfessionalsThe Trust of Your Client, A Professional ReferralAs real estate professionals, from lenders to realtors and appraisers to brokers, your clients rely on your expert help in making real estate decisions. Often you are asked to recommend an inspection firm for the purchase of a home.When the question inevitably comes, make that referral local, make it personal and make it a company that you can trust to offer your client peace of mind—refer them to one of the professionals at Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC. When referred by you, we know that we serve as a reflection of your expertise—a fact that we take very seriously. Be confident that we will work to make sure that “reflection” is a good one!A Conduit for Educated Real Estate PurchasesBased out of the Vancouver/Camas area, and serving SW Washington “from the mountains to the coast”, Nickelsen Home Inspections, LLC is there to serve as a conduit for educated real estate purchases. With computer generated reports, featuring Palm Tech technology and digital pictures upon request, your clients will be left with tools to make informed decisions and they will thank you for recommending them to the best: a Nickelsen Home Inspections professional.We don’t speak Greek, and neither do most clients. While professional, our reports are presented in an easy to read and understandable format—reports that we will personally go over with the client on site.And with all of that, we are still able to finish our inspections in a timely fashion, typically taking two hours to complete the entire process.Flexible, AvailableThough we perform hundreds of inspections a year, our schedule is always flexible and we are available, more often than not, for those last minute requests and re-inspections in time for closing. We will answer our phone and we will call back!We have personally witnessed inspections performed that could be aptly described as “alarmist” and “exaggerated”. As home inspectors, our duty is to educate the client, not frighten them.When your client needs a professional home inspection executed the right way, give us a call… We will earn your trust the first time!-------------------- {1} “Sellers Paying for Home Inspection”, USA Today (January 13, 2006). Available on the internet, please click here (Feb. 1, 2006). Also, while we tend to emphasize the benefits of including a real estate agent in the purchase and sale of a home, www.soldbyowner.com recommends a pre-listing inspection as the #1 tip to save the seller money!

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