The Ask List — asking for repairs in your own words

What this screen is for. After the inspection, you pick the findings that matter, say what you'd like done — in your words — and send one link. The seller's side opens it on a phone — they confirm the email address it was sent to with a code (no app, no password; only that address can open it) — and answers Agree, Decline, or Counter on each item while both sides watch the same live list. When it settles, one tap copies the agreed items as clean text for whatever form your deal runs on. How to get there. Open your report in the portal and tap + Add to Ask List on any finding, the green Ask List pill, or Build or export your Ask List in the tools row. What every button does Step 1 — Your list Each picked finding is a card with the report's own photos, its severity, where in the house it is, and — when your inspector recorded one — the repair budget. You decide without flipping back to the report. You're asking for — every item arrives already saying something sensible ("Repair · Before closing"). Tap Change to open it: Remedy chips — Repair · Replace · Repair or replace · Money instead (a credit at closing) · Have it evaluated by a specialist, and under "More ways to ask": Just asking about this · Treat it · Provide documentation or a receipt. How much? — appears only on "Money instead". It's what you'd like credited at closing — you are asking, not pricing the work. Use the budget — one tap makes the report's budget range the ask, marked as coming from the budget rather than typed. Say it in your own words — your sentence, never rewritten. Suggest wording offers one in your voice; a hint reminds you a good ask says what it is, where it is, and what you'd like done. If you paste the inspector's own wording, the page warns you — and a real echo of the report holds the send until you reword it. When would you like it done? — deal events (by the response deadline, before the appraisal, the final walkthrough, closing, possession) or a specific date. Remove takes an item off; Add more from your report jumps back to the findings; Add your own item adds something the report didn't cover (just name it — "Mailbox post" is perfect). The running total stays honest: "4 items · 2 ask for money · asking $580–$1,240" — never a made-up zero. Step 2 — Review & send Exactly what they'll see — the document preview: your words and the finding numbers. The inspector's write-up is not in it and cannot be — the page refuses to render a list that carries the report's own wording. Which forms? — if your deal's paperwork is ambiguous (western Washington especially), the page asks which forms you're on and words the document for that family. Until you answer, it stays neutral and photos stay off. Photos from your report — per-item switches. Most places they start on; on NWMLS deals they start off, and switching one on asks you to confirm first, because photos are report material under those forms. Only the pictures go — but anything your inspector wrote on a photo goes with it, and the page says so. Include the inspector's findings & budgets — off by default everywhere. Turning it on shows exactly what would travel and holds the send until you tick the acknowledgment. Send this list — the first send freezes your list as round 1 and opens the link and email blocks. Edit later and the button becomes Send the update — the other side sees the older version until you press it. A link for the other side — the link itself, Copy the link, a "Opened / Not opened yet" line, See it as they will, and Turn off the link — which is one-way: this list has one link, ever. Send it by email — a prewritten, editable message; if sending isn't possible it hands the message to your own mail app instead of showing a dead button. Print this page — there's no PDF on purpose: the Ask is a live document, and a saved file starts lying the moment the next round opens. After they answer How this is going — every answer, exactly as given, item by item. Nothing here can be edited later. Record their answer writes down a phoned-in seller reply — attributed to whoever said it and marked as recorded by you, never typed in the seller's own voice. The list for your form — pick Agreed / All / Open and Full / Short / One line, then Copy for my form. Every line stands alone — nothing it writes says "see report." Your Ask List, in full — a private page (you and your agent only) showing the asked items as full report cards with photos and the inspector's write-up. It is never sent to the other side. The other side's page (your link) They see the firm's branding, the property, your items with your words, a running total ("The buyer's side is asking for $X"), and three buttons per item: Agree · Decline · Counter. A counter can be "we'll repair it," "we'll replace it," or money — with Pay 25% / half / 75% shortcuts. They first confirm the email address the Ask was sent to (a code we email — no password, no app), type their name once (recorded beside that confirmed email), every answer asks "are you sure?" before it's set, and the whole list goes out with one Send my answers. Each sent answer has a five-minute Undo that withdraws it on the record rather than erasing it. HomeRecon Verified — the record behind every round Every time the list is sent, opened to the end, answered or withdrawn, HomeRecon writes down a fingerprint of exactly what it said — every item, every answer, who gave it and when — and chains it to the one before. You see it as a small green line, HomeRecon Verified · a1b2c3d4 · Aug 13, 2026, 6:07 PM, on your send confirmation, beside every round and every answer, on the other side's page, on print and in the export. Tap ⓘ for the full code and what it means. If anything in a record changed after it was written, that line turns amber and says Changed since it was recorded — that is the point of it. You can download the evidence file and check it yourself with the same open script that checks a report. It is tamper-evident and independently checkable; it is not a contract, and it does not say who is right. Common questions "Does the seller need an account?" No. They open your link on a phone and answer right in the document. "Will this hand them my inspection report?" No. The sent list is your own words plus finding numbers — never the inspector's narrative. Photos travel only when you switch them on, and NWMLS deals ask you to confirm first. "Where does the dollar figure come from?" The inspector's repair budget on that finding — tap "Use the budget" to ask for that range, or type your own. It's a planning figure, not pricing. "How do I ask for money instead of repairs?" Choose the Money instead remedy and put in the amount you'd like credited at closing. "They answered — how do I get the agreed items onto our form?" "The list for your form" → Agreed → Copy for my form, then paste onto whatever form your deal uses. HomeRecon is not the form. "Can I take the link back?" Yes — Turn off the link. It's one-way; a turned-off link opens for nobody, even from an old email. "I edited after sending — what do they see?" The last round, until you press Send the update. "The Ask buttons aren't on my report at all." Your inspection firm switched the Ask List off (their setting, not a fault). Your report and photos are unaffected — you can always talk to the firm directly. Good to know This is the only tool where the listing agent can respond, and where the agreed list writes itself. Your inspector can read the negotiation but cannot edit one word of it — that refusal is enforced in the database, so the report stays neutral evidence in your deal. The answering side confirms the email address the Ask was sent to; the name they type is recorded beside that confirmed email, and every answer carries its HomeRecon Verified fingerprint and time. Deadlines are your deal's own events and your own phrasing. The app never counts contract days for anyone — read your contract and lean on your agent for those. A mistyped, withdrawn, or turned-off link says so plainly and tells the reader to ask for a fresh one — nothing behind it is deleted. Related Reading your report — where you pick the items My Reports — the Ask pill on every report card Send to a contractor — a different thing: your own trade, full detail Messages — asking your inspector a question