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The Wrong Way to Approach a Home You Want
The Wrong Way to Approach a Home You Want
Being a Top Bristow Listing Agent, I get to see plenty of negotiating tactics that buyers and their agents will use to "get a deal" on a home.  The recent Bristow real estate market has been favoring sellers, and buyers are clearly frustrated by this.  Homes are going under conract quickly and they are having a hard time justifying full list price or more, to land a home.
One of the least effective ways to get a home you really want is to act as if you are barely able to deal with it.  Slagging interior finishes that are new, but not your taste, is bad form.  I was literally standing in a kitchen of a renvoated listing during an open house and had a visiting buyer sigh and groan.  It seemed as if someone was forcing her to view the home, but she conveyed in conversation she was dragging her husband to see it because she felt it was the best of what they had seen.  Right after, she sighed and said, "This whole kitchen will have to be ripped out."  Mind you, the granite, hardwood floors and stainless steel appliances were all new.  ... more

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