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The same offer you made previously may look more attractive now. If it is not accepted just make the same offer next year as it probably won't sell at its current price.
bdrasin
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2009 Sep 24, 6:30am
Best to keep emotion out of it. Offer what you think its worth and forget about proving a point one way or the other. The sellers life means nothing to you and as soon as the sale is done you'll never have anything to do with each other, so whats the point?
Patrick
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2009 Sep 24, 7:46am
I can just imagine! "I love your money very very much. I think about all the time, and wish you would take this crappy wooden box and give me your lovely money instead..."
dont_getit
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2009 Sep 24, 8:46am
If I were you, I would offer another 50K less than the asking price, just to stick it to the seller. If you still get it, you wanted it anyway..
" but I really want to stick it to the seller."
Next to sex, revenge is the next best sweetest thing.
If someone done you wrong, and you want to get back
do it good, do it hard, but just do it.
I'd definitely not waste my time with such a seller. What part of "greed" do you not understand?
Clara
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2009 Sep 24, 5:19pm
Offer what make sense to you with the knowledge that you have. It's all business, check your emotion out the door when it comes to THE biggest purchase of your life.
elliemae
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2009 Sep 24, 10:58pm
Do your homework, offer what you believe is fair (or what you believe is fair to you, anyway). If this is the place you want, buy it. If it isn't, don't. But this shouldn't be about "sticking it to the seller." They are just doing what they believe is best for them.
Living well is the best revenge, anyway.
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Okay my home-buying support group here are some facts. Two years ago (October 2007) I put an offer on what I guess would be called a large townhouse. (attached to one other unit, NOT part of a community - big plus what attracted me in the first place). Offered 45K less than listed - got scolded by the seller who subsequently decided he'd rather rent it out then sell it to me (or the proverbial "taking his ball and going home").
It has been listed again from time to time but never a drop in sales price...until now. Just listed $10K below what i offered back then - I suppose he doesn't want to carry two homes into the end of the tax year.
I'm stuck in that place where I really want it - but I really want to stick it to the seller. I guess I need to be somewhere in the middle but which way should I lean?