http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/2007-08-01/why-your-first-offer-is-usually-your-best-offer/ by Realtor Shawn Buryska of Coldwell Banker Burnet Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/2007-08-01/why-your-first-offer-is-usually-your-best-offer/#comment-7103 Joe Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:29:13 +0000 http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/?p=134#comment-7103 So true. Rejected the first offer I got because it was too "low". 9 months of crippling carrying costs later, am asking the same price he originally offered. So true. Rejected the first offer I got because it was too “low”. 9 months of crippling carrying costs later, am asking the same price he originally offered.

]]> http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/2007-08-01/why-your-first-offer-is-usually-your-best-offer/#comment-5298 Mint Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:42:05 +0000 http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/?p=134#comment-5298 This is a great article - we had this experience ourselves. We put in the first offer to a seller - agent said that the sellers were insulted at our first offer. We wouldn't go up to what the vendors wanted & moved on looking at other properties. Two months later the agent called us to say that the vendors had dropped the price. However in our view the value of the property had dropped as we had seen others by now. We did put in a second offer but it was significantly lower than our first. Eventually the sellers sold the place but it was at approx 15k below our first offer! This is a great article – we had this experience ourselves. We put in the first offer to a seller – agent said that the sellers were insulted at our first offer. We wouldn’t go up to what the vendors wanted & moved on looking at other properties. Two months later the agent called us to say that the vendors had dropped the price. However in our view the value of the property had dropped as we had seen others by now. We did put in a second offer but it was significantly lower than our first. Eventually the sellers sold the place but it was at approx 15k below our first offer!

]]> http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/2007-08-01/why-your-first-offer-is-usually-your-best-offer/#comment-475 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:20:15 +0000 http://www.shawnburyska.com/real-estate-blog/?p=134#comment-475 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

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