Tips to Selling a Home Warranty
An AHS® Home Warranty has many benefits for both buyers and sellers. Use these talking points and agent scripts to guide your home warranty conversation with clients.
Home Buyers
- Plan now, save later and help eliminate worries
- An unexpected breakdown can be devastating to your budget
- Enjoy your new home without the hassles of covered breakdowns
- Call AHS 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to request service
- Add optional coverage for up to 30 days after closing
Buyer: I'm in the market for a home. What's the benefit of buying an AHS Home Warranty?
Agent: Buying a new home is an exciting experience. It's also a large investment. That's why you protect it with homeowner's insurance, but what about the items not covered by insurance? An AHS Home Warranty is a service contract that covers the repair or replacement of many of the most frequently occurring breakdowns of home systems and appliances. When a covered breakdown occurs, just call AHS and they'll handle the rest.
Home Sellers
- Helps improve home's marketability
- Can help home sell faster and for a higher price
- Use as a negotiating tool – especially for older homes
- Helps protect home during the listing period
- Can reduce after-sale liability
Seller: I'm selling my home. Why would I want an AHS Home Warranty?
Agent: An AHS Home Warranty can help you sell your home by giving buyers additional confidence in the real estate transaction – they'll know that AHS stands behind the covered systems and appliances in the house. In fact, including a home warranty is one of the most constructive and economical methods of helping to achieve a home's asking price. Another bonus is that AHS can also protect your home while it's on the market.
Home Warranty Center
"I have encouraged many of my sellers to put AHS Home Warranties on their properties when listing them. It has been especially helpful for those listings which are either estate sales, owned by older homeowners who are downsizing, or for those houses which are priced on the borderline of affordability for the marketplace. It has often meant the difference between a deal sticking together during inspection and one going "south" with both sides arguing about an older furnace, for instance.
One recent experience was with a house that was currently unoccupied (divorce situation) and the hot water heater started leaking. The repair was scheduled for the next day, and my sellers got a new hot water heater as well as a minor repair of the pipe above it that was also compromised -- a $780 value! He couldn't have been more pleased, and now we have one less thing to deal with as we move forward into contract. In addition, I have seen more and more buyers of my listings actually using the home warranty for repairs, which means they find value in the program"
B. Ostroth, Teaneck, NJ
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What is a Home Warranty?
A home warranty is a service contract that covers the repair or replacement of many of the most frequently occurring breakdowns of home system components and appliances.
Is Everything in My Home Covered?
No. Not everything is covered; however, most of the system components and appliances that breakdown frequently are covered.
Why American Home Shield?
As the founding and leading Home Warranty Company, we have over 35 years of experience caring for our customers. With over 1.3 million home warranties in force nationwide, and over 11,000 contractors in our service network, we lead the industry in delivering innovative home warranty products to our customers.
