Dealing With a Sellers Rejection
You loved that home, but the seller turned down your offer! How do you deal with the rejection?
It might sound weird but searching for the perfect home and searching for true love have similarities. Just as searching for your true love takes time and doesn’t always happen right away. Finding the perfect home takes time and may not happen the first time around.
Even though a home doesn’t have feelings, you and the seller are very emotional when it comes to buying and selling a home. Unfortunately, it is common for a home buyer to have their hearts broken one or twice during the home buying process. Especially in a sellers market, it is possible to fall in love with a home, make an offer only to have the seller go with someone else.
So, what do you do when you have your heart broken by a seller? Healing a broken heart is not fun nor easy. With that said – here are some ways to cope when a seller breaks your heart.
Don’t over-analyze the loss
Forget about it. Analyzing why you did not get the home won’t get you anywhere. The time spent attempting to figure out what went wrong will only stop you from finding the right home for you. If the sellers picked another buyer “so be it.”
It’s easy to obsess over the possible reasons why the seller rejected your offer. The truth is – it happens, and there’s nothing you can do about the sellers choosing a different buyer. Sure, you could spend a lot of time thinking about why the seller did not accept your offer. But obsessing why the seller went with a different buyer and rejected your offer won’t change a thing.
Put your best foot forward and make your best offer
I’ve seen this all too many times. The first time around a buyer will want to save some room for negotiations and not make their best offer. This tactic may work in a buyers market, but using this tactic in a sellers market may prove to be a big mistake.
Here’s the bottom line – when you love a home, all you can do is put your best foot forward when making your offer. Remember, a seller does not have to sell to you. But as long as you put forth your best offer “if” it doesn’t work out – at least you did your best, and there was nothing more you could have done.
Don’t look back – you to move on
Once a seller has gone with another buyer you have to forget about it and move forward. Even though buying a home is emotional, you also have to be practical, too. Smart buyers consider each experience as a lesson learned, and they use that to their advantage the next time they make an offer. The truth is – you’ll find another perfect home as long as you move on and don’t look back. Getting too hung up on the one you lost is a sure way to keep you from getting the next home you want.
I know that it is hard to imagine when you lose the house you love. But I know from experience, there will always be another one to love. So don’t get caught up with the home you lost. Because when it is all said and done and you finally buy a home – weeks or months down the road, you’ll look back on that home you “had to have” and realize the home you have is the one you were meant to be with in the long run…
If you are looking to buy a home in the Long Beach area, let me be your guide through the process. I have decades of experience working buyers, and I am adept in the local real estate market. To find your dream home, call me today at (562) 225 2296 or email me at jmkinfo66@gmail.com
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