Creating a repair addendum from your inspection report
Who uses it
- Buyer’s agents build the addendum from the client portal after you publish the report.
- Inspectors don’t need to do anything beyond publishing. Offering this tool is a selling point when you market to realtors, because it saves them an hour of manual work per transaction.
How a realtor creates a repair addendum
Open the report from the client portal
From the report link you sent, the agent opens the Report Selection page and picks the inspection report. Defects are color-coded by severity, so the most important items stand out.
Add defects to the list
Next to each defect is an option to add it to the repair list. The agent picks only the items they want to negotiate; everything else stays out of the addendum.
Request a repair or a credit
For each item the agent chooses whether to ask for the repair itself or for monetary compensation, and can enter a dollar amount and a comment.
Frequently asked questions
Does the repair addendum change my inspection report?
Does the repair addendum change my inspection report?
No. The addendum is a separate PDF generated from the report. Your published report is never edited by the agent.
Can the client (homebuyer) build the addendum instead of the agent?
Can the client (homebuyer) build the addendum instead of the agent?
Yes. Anyone with access to the report in the client portal can use the tool, though in practice the buyer’s agent usually prepares it.
Is there a cost to the agent or client?
Is there a cost to the agent or client?
No. The repair addendum tool is included with every published Hive Inspect report at no extra charge.
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