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I meant "communicate" as in have your agent get your story to the buyer via the agent.
I meant seller, not buyer.
1sfrenter
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2012 Apr 26, 7:00am
first off, agents generally email offers
My agent has a PDF of the letter to the seller.
RentingForHalfTheCost
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2012 Apr 26, 7:04am
I am working on a letter (yes with pics of our family and our cats and our garden) to encourage her to consider our offer.
Sorry, highest offer will win. Unless you found the only person with a soul left in SF. Good luck.
MAGA
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2012 Apr 26, 10:26am
It would be interesting to view your letter. Is it on-line?
Outside of Kalifornia, people don't normally write "please let me buy your house" letters.
leo707
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2012 Apr 26, 11:17am
Sorry, highest offer will win. Unless you found the only person with a soul left in SF. Good luck.
Yeah, regardless of how much the owner may like you it is unlikely that they are going to "gift" you thousands of dollars.
That said my sister bought a house in the $850k range, and attached a nice personal letter with the offer. I am not sure if she put pics of here family. Her offer was accept and she was told that it was 1-3k bellow the highest offer (she told me the exact number I just don't remember it).
Anyway, good luck!
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We're putting an offer on a house and met the owner during the broker's open house. Had a good long chat, knew a few people in common, and she just retired from the same school district where we currently work.
She was pretty straightforward about the fact that she did not want to sell to investors or landlords, as she has lived in the house since it was built in 1959. Our youngest daughter was also with us and we had a nice chat about cats and gardening, etc. (ie., I schmoozed as hard as I could).
There will be multiple offers: inventory is ridiculously low in San Francisco, the place was crawling with people during the "broker's open house", and we have already been overbid on 2 other similar houses by all-cash offers.
I am working on a letter (yes with pics of our family and our cats and our garden) to encourage her to consider our offer.
My question is: should I include this in our offer or just drop it in her mail slot? Or ring the doorbell and hand it to her (and introduce myself again)?
Obviously, if she gets offers that are 50K over ours it wont matter a whit what we do.
Doesn't hurt to try, right?
Any suggestions on writing up a kick-a$$ sell-to-us letter??
What's bugging me is that 6 months ago this multiple offer scenario was not happening. Judging from the comps, last fall the list price for this house would probably have been the sale price.
We only just started looking in earnest in January, after an insane rent hike and multiple visits from an increasingly obnoxious landlord.. now I wonder if we should just put up with his shenanigans for a little while longer (13 years is enough already and rentals that accept kids and dogs are very hard to come by)and see if this craziness is just a temporary spring bump.
Did this happen in 2011 (spring bump)? I wasn't looking so I don't know. Was everyone calling bottom last year this time?