Sprinkles Cost Extra!

Michael, Especially true if you know it's a hot property.  That's not the time to be playing limbo with the offer.  Get serious and own it, or play games and lose it.

Bruce & Sandy, Unfortunately too many people don't pay attention to the facts and keep believing that buyers own the entire market.  In some areas that stopped being true quite awhile back.

Wayne and Jean Marie, We've been on both sides of this working with buyers.  Someone who wanted the steal and lost out, and others who knew what it would take and went right after it.  The second group is now in the homeowner category :)

Clint, I know we've added lots of sprinkles to our own home, and we're enjoying them now.  We'll get part of the investment back, but nowhere close to all, and that's okay with us.

Jane, Most people will pay for that something extra special.  So what does that L.A. store sell?

Cindy, True, how much extra?  Sometimes subjective, but the one thing not to expect is free.

AB, True, the more of a sellers market, the higher the premium,

Ellen, We see that here too.  Rather than drop price, new construction starts offering bonuses to keep the buyers coming.

Dorie, Posting on Sunday nights is a long shot for getting a Feature, I'm sure the Staff is mostly chilling out by then, as they should be :)  And definitely more for the sprinkles!  It's amusing to see someone point to "comps" that have zero extra, and then have them try to offer even less than the comps for a home that has the extras.  Doesn't send the message that you're a serious buyer who understands the market trends and what it takes to be successful.  How much is the buyers and how much is their agent we never know.

Kathryn, We've had agents come through and write offers on one of our listings and tell us that was offer number FIVE they've written, and they were STILL trying to lowball.  They moved on to offer 6  because they still weren't serious enough buyers to get the deal done on our listing.  And we know they've got company in that mindset.

Joni, Sometimes the offer and list price are so far apart the two teams aren't even in the same stadium, much less on the same playing field :)

Brenda, At least MOST of our sellers know they won't get dollar for dollar.  We've been in negotiations with a buyer that apparently not only wants the sprinkles for free, but wants the price deducted from fair value too! :)  They're allowed to dream.  They also won't own a home anytime soon.