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Dithering sellers. It is a cash offer. Make your mind up!!!
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Are you saying the seller would not have sold at asking price?
precisely. he just took the house off the market. ea was rather miffed. as for my poor colleague, he'd lost a week and a half but has now had an offer accepted on a different house, within an hour of starting the negotiations, which made a nice difference to the week and a half that ended with nothing.0 -
The offering game is a case of steeling yourself against rejection.
Our first house we made an offer 22500 less then the asking price. It was on the market for 122500. You don't know if you don't ask!!!;)
They obviously refused, 2 months later they dropped the price to 116500 so we offered the same amount again, they again refused so we raised by a total of £500!! as a final offer and they took it. Took some nerve as FTB but we were prepared to lose.
Can't say that it wasn't stressful though, but I'm naturally stubborn and it was a repo company who we were dealing with, not someones home.0 -
wow cherry, nerves of steel! see, i fell in love with the cottage we're buying and thankfully the sellers were happy to negotiate the price very quickly. i wouldn't have lasted a week, not to mention two months!!!!0
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