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Help-what to offer!!!
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At the point of offer if you decide to offer I would go in and take your mortgage offer etc, explain your postion. It doesnt matter if your mortgage offer indicates you can offer more, its what your willing to pay for the property that matters.
Good luck hope you get it.Pawpurrs x
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i want to do all i can to ensure we get this house
The difficulty you have is that, if you appear as keen and desperate as you sound in this thread*, they'll spot it a mile off and play you for every penny you can spend.
Don't appear desperate, try to treat it as a professional transaction and don't let them panic you into thinking you'll lose it if you don't go a little bit higher. When you're explaining your position, make it quite clear that you know it's to the seller's advantage that you can move quickly as the longer it's on their books, the more it costs them.
* I don't mean that badly, we've all been there.What goes around - comes around0 -
Some young friends of us bought a part exchange house. It was on for £99k and was a good price for that. They tried to knock off a couple of thousand but instead Persimmon offered to pay their legal expenses. I guess thats better than zilcho and its a lovely little house.0
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