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Don't Let a Good One Past You By

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Real Estate Agent with Decorus Realty DRE# 3207607

www.OnePlaceOpenHouse.com

By G.M. Filisko

Have a plan for reviewing purchase offers so you don't let the best slip through your fingers.

You've worked hard to get your home ready for sale and to price it properly. With any luck, offers will come quickly. You'll need to review each carefully to determine its strengths and drawbacks and pick one to accept. Here's a plan for evaluating offers.

1. Understand the process

All offers are negotiable, as your agent will tell you. When you receive an offer, you can accept it, reject it, or respond by asking that terms be modified, which is called making a counteroffer.

2. Set baselines

Decide in advance what terms are most important to you. For instance, if price is most important, you may need to be flexible on your closing date. Or if you want certainty that the transaction won't fall apart because the buyer can't get a mortgage, require a prequalified or cash buyer.

3. Create an offer review process

If you think your home will receive multiple offers, work with your agent to establish a time frame during which buyers must submit offers. That gives your agent time to market your home to as many potential buyers as possible, and you time to review all the offers you receive.

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Nancy Timberlake
RE/MAX Shoreline - Portland, ME
REALTOR - Southern Maine

Good advice.  I make a chart for homeowners with the pros and cons of each offer.

Jul 05, 2010 01:41 AM