An AHS Home Warranty provides:

Confidence for home buyers

  • Protect their investment
  • Avoid high covered repair costs
  • No-hassle repair help

Protection for home sellers

  • May help sell home faster
  • Protection when home is for sale
  • Helps reduce after-sale liability
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A valuable tool for agents

  • Can help strengthen offers and close sales
  • Protection when home on market or under contract
  • Helps reduce pre- and post-sale liability
  • Helps boost repeat and referral business
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Welcome to the American Home Shield home page exclusively for Keller Williams agents.

You can count on AHS for the tools, support and superior coverage to help you secure more listings, increase referrals and get more repeat business.

The problem: Unexpected, expensive repair costs.

AHS developed the home warranty concept more than 30 years ago to help homeowners protect themselves from high home systems and appliance repair costs.

  • Homeowners spend an average of $900 each year to repair home systems and appliances.1
  • The average life expectancy of nine critical appliances/home systems is 13 years, and the likelihood of failure of one of these systems in a given year is 68%.2

A smart, affordable and popular solution.

Homeowners can save significant money and reduce frustration by protecting themselves with a home warranty.

  • A home system or appliance repair can range from $65 to $2,000; a replacement averages $1,085.3
  • The average cost for a home warranty is $350 - $500.4
  • In 2002, 9 out of 10 California homes sold had home warranty coverage.5
  • Nationwide, home warranty use is rising in step with housing trends.6

A valuable tool for agents.

In addition to the protection and peace of mind for homeowners, AHS Home Warranty plans can help real estate agents keep deals together, close sales and reduce post-sale issues -- which can lead to increased repeat and referral business.

  • 71% of REALTORS® recommend home warranties to clients.7
  • AHS is the only home warranty company belonging to the National Association of REALTORS VIP® Alliance Program.

AHS is the right choice in home warranties.

American Home Shield is America's leading choice for home warranties. We continually strive to be not only the largest, but also the highest-quality provider of home warranty coverage available.

  • AHS Home Warranties protect 1.2 million homes nationwide today.
  • We spent over $243 million nationwide in 2004 to repair and maintain homes.
  • We handle 2.3 million service calls per year - over 6,000 each day.
  • Our customers use their contract an average of 2+ times per year.
  • AHS is a ServiceMaster Company, America's leading provider of service brands for residential and commercial customers.

 

 
         
         
 


Information Sources:

1 Consumer Expenditure Survey 2002, U.S. Census
2,3,4,8,9 Home Repair and Remodel, Marshall & Swift L.P., 2004
5 Home Warranty Association of California, 2003
6 As reported in the Washington Times, August 29, 2003
7, 11 Unpublished tabulations from the 2003 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Member Profile
10 National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators/Consumer Federation of America Survey 2001, as reported in The Washington Post, January 11, 2003

©2004 American Home Shield of AZ, CA, FL, IA, ME, Mid-Atlantic, NV, TX, VA and WA, Inc. New Jersey Home Shield Corporation. All rights reserved. In VA, home warranty is home protection insurance. In OK, home warranty is home service contract.