All Posts Tagged With: "negotiation"
What stays with a home and what goes in a real estate sale?
In general terms, items which are physically attached to and intended to be part of a home are expected to stay. Example, if there is a built-in dishwasher it should stay — if the sellers take it there would be a large hole in the kitchen cabinets. Items that stay are called “fixtures” but it [...]
28Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
How could our full-price offer be rejected?
We saw a home we liked and put in a full-price offer with only one small stipulation asking the seller to re-paint a bedroom. The seller now wants us to up our bid. Isn’t the seller required to accept our full-price offer? Answer: You may have made a full-price bid, but you did not accept [...]
28Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 4 comments | Continued
Shouldn’t Real Estate Sellers Take Less If We Make A Reasonable Offer?
Question: We recently sold our house in one state at a loss and now want to buy in another state. We made an offer on a home that was about 5 percent below the asking price. Our offer was rejected. What can we do to make the owners more reasonable? Answer: Who says the owners [...]
27Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
What is “specific performance?”
Real estate transactions are based on written agreements between buyers and sellers. Such agreements typically have a number of clauses to assure that each party obtains certain benefits — basically the seller wants cash and the buyer wants the property. Whatever the price and terms of the sale agreement, it is expected that both parties [...]
27Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Must A Home Seller Respond To Our Offer?
Question: We have made two cash offers for a property and not received a response from the seller even though the property has been on the market for nearly two years. Must the sellers respond? Answer: No. That your offer is in cash does not matter. That you may have made a full-price offer does [...]
23Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Your Real Estate Questions Answered
Would you like to share your question in newspapers nationwide? Would you like to potentially reach huge numbers of readers? This site receives numerous real estate questions from visitors, so in an effort to answer some of the inquiries we receive we’re going to take selected questions and use them in columns and articles. Please [...]
23Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 8 comments | Continued
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