How to Bargain for Personal Property: How Do You Negotiate to Get Personal Property Included in the Deal? As a buyer, you may fall in love with a piece of personal property just as Rita and Peter did in our example. It could be a beautiful, bell shaped glass chandelier in the dining room. Maybe … Read more
Offer and Counteroffer: Why Would a Seller Want to Counter? As a seller represented by an agent, you probably don’t have much of a handle on what kind of a person the buyer is. (That’s the rea son I sometimes recommend face-to-face negotiations.) Rather, you have to judge partly by what the agent reports, but … Read more
Offer and Counteroffer: The Procedure for Offers When you’re dealing through an agent, offers and counteroffers are presented in written form. You make an offer and the agent, in consultation, writes it out on a sales agreement. Then the agent presents the offer to the other party and, presumably, argues your case for you. If … Read more
Negotiating a Sales Agreement: Dealing with Time Time can also be a deal point. In post 2, we saw why time was important as a negotiating tool. Now we’ll consider a specific application of time in the sales agreement: the date of occupancy. When—the exact date—the seller turns the home over to the buyer is … Read more
