I am hearing in the press, strategies for approaching offers to purchase Real Estate. The blanket strategy that I heard was that Florida has the most over priced homes in the United States. The financial community that broadcasts to the public these strategies are suggesting to offer 40% lower than the asking price. I have to ask myself, what if the home is priced properly already below appraised value. The Sellers are already biting the bullet by asking a lower price for a good value.

Blanket strategies work only if you are trying to steal a house and you don't really care what it looks like, but only that a great deal was struck. Families are attracted to certain homes for various reasons, location, size, upgrades, and personal tastes. Their motivation is much different.

If you are trying to purchase a home for your family, hire a Realtor, find the home that you absolutely love and negotiate a good deal. Any home purchased below appraised value is a great deal and your happy living in it.

Don't take the financial advice from a few that are probably not even regional or familiar with the market in which you want to reside. Financial consultants think like investors they are buying a house, not a home.

 

The  Resident Mark

 

2 Comments on Are You Looking To Buy A House Or A Home?

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2007
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Mark- You are absolutely correct. Buyers should be finding Realtors who work in the areas that they are buying. Who else know the local market better.
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Mark, blanket strategies for pricing an offer are ridiculous! What simplistic thinking on the part of some novice reporter. Only with the advice of an excellent REALTOR should a buyer come up with the "proper" offer price. That's like the news media blanketing the entire country into one number of how the housing market is doing.
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