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How Do I Respond to a Low Offer?
Sometimes sellers choose to price their houses high for the current market and they sit for awhile.  Sometimes when they sit, buyers think they are becoming desperate and want to submit a really low offer.  Othertimes you have buyers who just want to make sure they are getting a good deal and not leaving any money on the table.
 
How do you respond when a buyer submits a low offer?  Some sellers get angry.  Why would you get angry when receiving an offer on your house?  If you have a person that has come into your house, walked through it, and likes it more than any other house that is on the market, takes the time to think of and prepare an offer for your house, that means they really like your house!  Instead of being upset over a low offer, be happy that someone likes the house enough to write an offer!
 
I've never had a seller do this, but we just received this response to an offer that my buyer submitted:
 
The problem with this OFFER REJECTED response is the seller had no idea how high my buyers would have gone if they had just countered.  The house has been on the ... more

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