Do you attend the home inspection as Buyer's Agent?

[Mindy Jensen]

I always attend my buyer's home inspections. I've been through this before multiple times, and many of them have not ever been through one.

I'm there the entire time, and encourage my buyers to be there the entire time as well so they can ask questions and get clarification.

I have a listing with an inspection this weekend. (Of COURSE I am out of town because that's when ALL the real estate things happen.)

Buyer's agent is not planning on attending the inspection, but the buyers are. 

Is this odd? Am I old fashioned? Do you attend your buyers inspections?

[Chris Mason]

Lazy buyer's agent. You're right, that is unusual. 

Buyer is going to read something in a report that the buyer's agent has no context on because they weren't there. As a result, an ant hill will be made into a mountain. And you as the listing agent are going to get some ridiculous repair request that the buyer's agent didn't/can't filter or moderate, because they weren't there to see the thing in person with her own eyes. Your seller will of course refuse this ridiculous request. But, because the other agent didn't see the thing in person, they will not have a leg to stand on when they go back to the buyer with your seller's refusal, jamming up the negotiation process.

Good luck with your listing... Hopefully I'm wrong!

One of the top listing agents in my area told me she refuses to accept offers from Redfin because they use $35/hr zero commission "associate agents" to host inspections/appraisals, etc, rather than the actual deal-writing agent, causing the above to be the norm w/ Redfin rather than the exception.