Selling ownership on pre-inspection spending

Pre-inspection spending competes with every other line in the budget, and its payoff is a score, not a rent check. The argument that lands: cost of a failed inspection — re-inspection, escrow risk, reputation — versus the cost of the walks and fixes. What evidence moved your ownership: a past score, a peer property's story, or a line-item comparison?

The cleanest argument I know is arithmetic: price the walks, the parts, and the fixes on your schedule — then price the failure path: re-inspection, the repair scramble at emergency rates, the escrow and reputation conversations nobody wants. Put both columns on one page and let ownership pick which one they are buying, because they are buying one of them. What evidence finally moved your ownership on pre-inspection spending — a bad score of your own, or somebody else's expensive lesson?