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Your wife is fat and your baby is ugly. Will you sell me your house?

Now that the market has changed there are fewer "low ball" offers too be made.  The days of everything available being a distressed home and no one buying are long gone.  Thus, a buyer is very likely to be working to by from a traditional seller.  If the house is priced where it should be then it will sell at or close to that price.
This blog post I am sharing gives two reasons why a low ball offer may not be the right way to "start the conversation."  1) You may offend the seller.  2) Another much better offer may come in.
A tale of two home buyers.
"My buyers hope this will start the conversation."  That was the response from an agent when I asked him if he was sure he wanted me to submit his buyer's lowball offer on my listing that was priced at market value. I explained that I thought my sellers would be insulted but the response was the same, "we're just starting a conversation".
Yes, I get that. But starting a conversation with an insult is never a good plan.
So, I met with the sellers and tried to soften the blow as ... more

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