Making Your Offer To Purchase Your New Home

Quite often the best properties on the market move fast, so once you have found what you want (and you will know it) then move fast so you don't lose the home you really want.  When we first meet and decide to work together we'll review the contract form and other potential documents necessary to buy your home - just in case we find the nearly perfect home and you want to buy it, and there are other offers coming in on it that day, you won't feel quite as over-whelmed and pressured.

Next, we'll prepare a computer generated market evaluation for the property, showing you what similar properties have sold for and the difference between the list price and the sales price, and average market times.  After all shouldn't you have the same information as the seller does?  This will be one of the components we look at in determining how much and what terms to offer when drafting your offer to purchase the property.

A word about making low offers would be - caution.  Some sellers are so offended and emotionally upset by low offers that it makes negotiating very difficult to practically impossible.  You'd be surprised at the number of great homes that are lost because of buyers inability or reluctance to negotiate a little on price, terms, or concessions.  Remember that in today's market $5,000 means about $30 more per month in your mortgage payment - or about the cost of going out for a nice dinner once a month.  Quite a sacrifice for giving up years of pride and enjoyment in a home you would treasure and love.