Three packages, one decision. The right choice isn’t the biggest one — it’s the one that matches your listing’s actual condition. Here’s how to pick in sixty seconds.
Every week we get the same question from sellers and realtors: which package? It’s a fair question, and the honest answer is that the wrong package costs you money in both directions. Buy too little, and the inspection report becomes the negotiation. Buy too much, and you’ve paid for a scope your home didn’t need. The package you want is the one whose scope matches your home’s condition — nothing more, nothing less.
The three Pre-Listing Pros packages are built around that scope. Each one is flat-rate, single-visit, and capped at a known number of hours so there are no surprises on the invoice. The differences are in what’s included, what kind of home each one fits, and what each one is built to prevent.
Why “which package” is the question that matters
A pre-listing visit pays for itself when the scope matches the listing. The math is straightforward: every item we handle in advance is one fewer line on the buyer’s inspection report — and every line on that report is a potential repair credit, a price reduction, or a deal that takes a week longer to close. The cost of getting the package right is small. The cost of getting it wrong is paid twice: once for the work, once for the credits the work didn’t prevent.
That’s the whole framing. The packages aren’t tiers of quality. They’re tiers of scope. List Ready covers the cosmetic punch list, Market Ready adds the safety and mechanical pass, and Offer Ready adds the white-glove exterior and photo-day prep. Pick the lowest tier whose scope you actually need.
The three Pre-Listing Pros packages
Package 1 · List Ready
The cosmetic punch list, handled in one visit
$499 flat · up to 4 hours · the foundation
List Ready is the entry package and the foundation under every other tier. It’s the room-by-room cosmetic punch list buyers notice in the first sixty seconds of a showing — the small finish items that quietly decide whether a home reads as cared for or one repair short.
What’s included:
- Caulking refresh — kitchen, bathrooms, and visible exterior seams.
- Paint and trim touch-ups on doors, baseboards, and scuffed walls.
- Fixture and hardware tightening — pulls, handles, hinges, towel bars.
- Sticky doors, closet doors, and bifold/slider adjustments.
- Bulb replacement with matched color temperature across the home.
- Outlet and switch-cover swaps where they’re cracked or yellowed.
Best fit: well-maintained homes, roughly 0–10 years old, or any listing on a tight timeline where the home is mostly there and just needs the punch list closed out. Also the most-common closing-gift package realtors book for sellers.
What it doesn’t include: the safety and mechanical pass — detectors, GFCIs, weatherstripping, furnace filter, exterior caulking on windows. If those items are in question on your listing, you want Market Ready.
Package 2 · Market Ready · Most Booked
Cosmetic punch list plus the safety & mechanical pass
$999 flat · up to 8 hours · the most-booked tier
Market Ready is the package most Northern Colorado realtors recommend to most Northern Colorado sellers, and it’s the most-booked tier we run. It’s everything in List Ready plus a full pass on the items inspectors flag — the ones that don’t show up in photos but always show up in the report.
Everything in List Ready, plus:
- Smoke and CO detector check — replace any units past date.
- GFCI test and reset at every wet location: kitchen, baths, garage, laundry, exterior.
- Furnace filter replacement and HVAC return-air inlet vacuumed.
- Weatherstripping refresh on exterior doors.
- Exterior caulking pass at windows and trim joints.
- Water heater and furnace access cleared for inspection day.
Best fit: homes roughly 10–30 years old, or any seller who doesn’t want surprises after offer day. If you’ve been in the home long enough that you can’t quite remember when the smoke detectors were last replaced, that’s the signal — you’re a Market Ready listing.
Why it’s most booked: the safety and mechanical items are the single most-common source of repair credit requests on NoCo inspection reports. The cost difference between List Ready and Market Ready is $500 — less than the typical first-round credit ask on any one of those items.
Package 3 · Offer Ready
The white-glove option for higher-priced listings
$1,799 flat · up to 16 hours · the white-glove tier
Offer Ready is everything in Market Ready, extended over a longer scope and a higher level of finish. It’s built for listings where the photos and the first showing have to carry weight — higher-priced homes, professionally photographed listings, or anything where you need a full extra day of work to bring the exterior and curb up to the same standard as the interior.
Everything in Market Ready, plus:
- Curb refresh — entry walkway, exterior light fixtures, house-number alignment, mailbox.
- Light staging-prep fixes — mantel hardware, picture-rail patches, anchor points.
- Extended exterior caulking, paint touch-ups, and a slower, more detailed pass.
- A second day on-site if the scope calls for it — up to 16 hours total.
- Pre-photo walk-through with the listing agent if requested.
Best fit: higher-priced listings, professional photo days, multi-day projects, or homes where the curb and exterior need as much attention as the interior. Sellers and realtors who want one number, one team, and one workweek’s worth of prep that lands before the listing photos.
Three real matchups: which home gets which package
The cleanest way to choose is to picture three different homes and the package each one would fit. These three are common enough across Northern Colorado that almost every listing maps to one of them.
Matchup 1
Greeley · 2018 build · List Ready
A newer Greeley build, owner-occupied for five years, generally well kept. The kitchen caulk has pulled away in one corner, the entry needs a touch-up, three bulbs are out, and two interior doors stick. Nothing on the safety side — detectors and GFCIs are in date. This home needs the cosmetic punch list closed out and not much more. List Ready, four hours, done before listing photos.
Matchup 2
Loveland · 2002 ranch · Market Ready
A twenty-year-old Loveland ranch, two owners, lived in. The bathrooms need re-caulking. A couple of GFCIs won’t reset. The smoke detectors have been beeping. The furnace filter hasn’t been changed since fall. Two doors stick and the exterior caulking around the kitchen window has cracked. This is the most-common Northern Colorado pre-listing call — and the most-common Market Ready listing. Eight hours, the inspection report gets short, the offer gets cleaner.
Matchup 3
Fort Collins · higher-priced listing · Offer Ready
A Fort Collins home listing above the local median, professional photos scheduled, the listing agent wants the exterior to photograph as well as the interior. The home is in good shape but the scope is bigger — both interior and exterior need a careful pass, and the listing timeline allows two days. Offer Ready, sixteen hours across two days, the photos land cleanly and the first showing is showroom-ready.
The shorthand: List Ready when the home is mostly there. Market Ready when the inspection report worries you. Offer Ready when the photos have to do heavy lifting.
How to pick the right package in sixty seconds
Walk the home once, with no fixing in mind, and ask three questions. First: is anything beeping, expired, or visibly failing on the safety side — detectors past date, GFCIs that won’t trip, weatherstripping that’s chewed up? If yes, you’ve moved past List Ready. Second: are there exterior items that will show up in the photos — faded trim, a tired entry, curb appeal that needs more than an afternoon? If yes, you’re at Offer Ready. Third: if neither of those is true, you’re at List Ready, and you can move on.
Realtors making this call on behalf of a seller can use the same three questions. If you’re between tiers, default to Market Ready — that’s the slot the largest number of NoCo homes actually fits, and the safety-and-mechanical pass is the single highest-leverage piece of pre-listing work for protecting the inspection report. The price difference from List Ready is $500. The repair credit it can prevent is usually more.
What every package shares
No matter which tier you book, the bones are the same. Flat-rate pricing — you know the number before we show up. A capped number of hours — we work the list, not the clock. One visit, one invoice, one team. We don’t manage outside contractors and we don’t bill extras at the end. The whole point is to take the unknowns off your plate the week before listing day, not add new ones.
We work across Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, and the surrounding Northern Colorado communities. If you’re between tiers and not sure, the most-useful thing you can do is text a few photos and a short note about the home. We’ll tell you, plainly, which package your listing actually needs — even when the answer is the smaller one.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add to a pre-listing package mid-visit?
Yes. If we’re partway through a List Ready visit and find an item that pushes the home into Market Ready territory — usually something on the safety or mechanical side — we’ll quote the difference on the spot and you decide. The packages stack cleanly; you only pay the difference between tiers, not double for any overlap.
What if my home doesn’t fit cleanly into one tier?
Most homes don’t fit perfectly. The packages are designed around scope, not square footage — List Ready covers the cosmetic punch list, Market Ready adds the safety and mechanical pass, and Offer Ready adds the white-glove exterior and curb refresh. Pick the lowest tier whose scope you need. If you’re between tiers, the most-common answer is Market Ready, which is why it’s the most-booked package.
Do you do pre-listing packages for realtors as a closing gift?
Yes. A List Ready or Market Ready visit is one of the most-used closing gifts our realtor partners book. The agent pays the flat package rate; we coordinate directly with the seller on scheduling. It’s a tangible, useful gift the seller actually feels — more memorable than a candle or a bottle of wine — and it shows up the week before listing photos, which is when the seller needs help most.
Which pre-listing package is most popular?
Market Ready is the most-booked tier across Northern Colorado. It fits the largest slice of homes — anything roughly 10 to 30 years old — and it’s the package that adds the safety and mechanical items inspectors flag most often. Sellers who don’t want surprises after offer day almost always end up at Market Ready, even if they call for List Ready first.
Still not sure which package your listing needs?
We’ll Quote It in One Call
Text Austin at 970-793-8237 with a few photos and a short note about the home, or call to walk through it together. We’ll tell you, plainly, which package fits — even when the answer is the smaller one. Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, and across Northern Colorado.