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HouseMaster, a 40-year residential inspection service company with offices throughout the United States and Canada, announced in a press release that they partnered with Xactware technology companies to provide home buyer platform forecast improvements. simple housing.
Products, Repairs Estimation Reports, will base their costs on inspection recommendations made by HouseMaster professionals.
Home buyers and agents can produce reports in a few clicks, with the aim of using numbers for clearer negotiations on repair issues.
Xactware is a resource for the specific costs behind reports, basing costs on a broad construction information database that includes more than 450 regional markets, which include material costs, average labor costs and pricing models for general repair items at home.
Generally, estimates of post-inspection repairs require additional suppliers to visit the property and prepare reports. This often leads to speculation and back and forth between the parties. Estimated default repair technology is designed to reduce the process in a few days, reducing the risk of delayed closure.
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However, both parties must still agree that the HouseMaster report is a reference document for progress.
Xactware has around 20 different products related to estimates of rationalization for the residential and commercial construction industry. The technology library used by various sectors in banking, insurance and real estate. The first product was Xactimate, launched in 1986.
HouseMaster, based in New Jersey, was founded in 1979.
"HouseMaster knows about home inspection and home buyers, and Xactware knows its estimates, data and software," said David Obert, vice president of proprietary solutions for Xactware in a press release. "Together, we have been able to create a tool that gives consumers access to the most comprehensive and verified cost estimates in North America."
HouseMaster is known in part because of its more practical approach to involving home buyers in the inspection process and recommendations, and offering real estate agents additional protection against errors and omissions with their Reference program.
Estimated repairs are included in the inspection, and additional reports may be requested for $ 29.
