Tips and Traps When Negotiating Real Estate: Why Would a Seller Want to Counter?

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

Tips and Traps When Negotiating Real Estate: Why Would a Buyer Want a Counteroffer?

Why Would a Buyer Want a Counteroffer? In before post, we discussed how much to offer for a property. We were talking about making a serious offer that the seller would accept. In a great many instances where a deal is actually made, die seller’s counter contains only minor changes. However, sometimes as a buyer … Read more