Why isn't the highest offer always the best offer?
The top number and the best offer are often two different offers. What financing, deposits, contingencies, and timing do to the price a seller keeps.
Notes
The other side of the tablehas read all of this already.
Short pieces on what is negotiable, when it is negotiable, and how a transaction actually runs. No market roundups. Those date in a month, and every agent publishes them.
What's askable
Which levers exist, when they exist, and why the other side of the table already knows.
What can you negotiate besides price?
Condition, closing costs, timing, inclusions, contingencies, and builder incentives are all terms. Price is only the one everybody watches.
Next step
The one about your own house isn’t here.
That is the one worth asking out loud, and a phone call covers more of it than any post can.
Or text her at (704) 200-9360.
Start here
Ask it here instead.
What you’re looking at, and which side of it you’re on. That’s the whole form.
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