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negotiation: "I'd Rather You Just Said Thank You".... - 06/07/09 08:46 PM

It's a line from one of my husband's and my favorite movies "A Few Good Men" starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. So many lines from this movie have stuck with me, and although this one was delivered by "the bad guy", it came to mind a few weeks ago after writing an offer for a client.
Here are the details:
The offer was low. The property has been on the market, on and off, for more than a year. The buyer is pre-approved and expecting a counter-offer Here was the Listing Agent's response:
"Sigh, Sigh, Sigh, wow, it's really … (16 comments)

negotiation: What's the definition of a "Reasonable Offer"? - 11/30/07 11:51 PM
I received another "Builder Incentive" email in my inbox this morning. "There will be a drawing this weekend for a hotel stay and no reasonable offer will be refused". It made me pause and ask, "What makes one offer 'reasonable' and another not?"
In the early 90's I wrote a very ridiculous offer on a Builder owned property, which of course was rejected. I was a "newbie"....I'm sure my clients had bought and sold more homes than I had, and I allowed that to intimidate me. We wrote the offer low and asked for the moon...., furniture, new deck planters and benches to be … (13 comments)

 
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Seattle Real Estate|Colleen Fischesser| |Short Sale Specialist|So King County

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