Should You Over Pay For A Home
Bill,
Great post - as an exclusive buyer's agent, my #1 goal is to get the home my client wants, #2 is to reduce the price. Many times the home is located in a particular place where the home becomes more valuable to the buyer, and buyer was willing to invest the extra bucks for it.
ira
Should you over pay for a home? Should you ever pay more than the house appraises for? Should you ever pay more than the house is listed for?
Should you over pay for a home, possibly! Should you ever pay more than the house is listed for, a house No! A home possibly. There is a difference between a house and a home. A home, a place for your family, a place of your own is often worth more than the sum of it's parts! A house, one that's not intended to be your home is rarely worth more than it's list price and almost never more than it's appraisal.
It's an interesting contradiction, isn't it?
You can never get into trouble with classic conservative advice is never pay more than appraisal, but some times it's hard to successfully excel with such constraints.
With out questioning the validity of the appraisal there are few reasons to you over pay for a home. We are in the people business and homes should be bought from the heart when the buyers can afford the luxury of choice.
Should you over pay for a home? One very experience agent Renee Burrows says: "As a buyer's agent I would work on a price reduction first... If that doesn't go through, the buyer would then have to consider whether to pay the difference between the sales price and contract price in addition to their down payment and closing costs."
Should you over pay for a home? Don't over pay, remains good advice in all markets. If this is an investment it should be absolutely don't! If this is a HOME and the buy can afford it we have to consider the people factor and consider the emotional factor and Renee did say "Consider!" every thing is relative. There is always more than one way!
Should you over pay for a home? The question is two fold should you over pay based on the appraisal or should you over pay the list price? The list price is the amount the seller is willing to settler for, not necessarily even relevant to the value!
Should you over pay for a home? People say don't for many reasons, the most common are:
It's the right advice!
They don't want you taking any risk.
They don't want you succeeding where they don't.
There is no down side, to saying don't! (If they say "Do" and you fail they feel libel, but if you succeed they can simply add "you got lucky!")
Don't is always safe advice, what we forget is man has never had great success with out risking great failure!
Should you over pay for a home? Maybe!
Bill
William J Archambault Jr
The Real Estate Investment Institute
wja@reii.org 832-259-7078 or 702-516-1569
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