Here's a tip for someone who is going to be selling a home without the assistance of a professional real estate agent.

One of the things that will occur in the course of selling your home will be a home inspection on the part of the buyer. After seeing the list of any possible deficiencies in the house the buyer may then in his or her purchase offer require that you repair or replace deficiencies. Sometimes this results in hard feelings and the buyers or the seller walks away from the contract. Here's how you can avoid that.

When you're going the home for sale by owner route hire your own inspector before you put the house on the market. Your home inspector will prepare a report for you that will outline all the possible deficiencies found as a result of the inspection. Now you can set about to repair or replace the things discovered by your home inspector. Since the hous isn't on the market you'll be under no time pressure to make decisions quickly.

Once you've corrected all the listed problems then put your home on the market. Chances are that when time comes for the buyer's home inspection comes the inspector won't find anything worthy of correction. This will give you a much better chance of completing that sale even faster and with far less friction.