We have reached a meeting of the minds, as they say, on my house. My years of dealing with realtors have taught me well.
When i got the contract i rprinted it and read EVERY LINE AND LOOKED AT EVERY BOX CHECKED. These are the things that can come up later and bite you in the you know what. Instead of going back and forth with paper pushing to make changes, i called the realtor and worked out the details orally. Of course, nothing means anything until its in writing, but patience is not my strong suit so i like to talk first.
We got things worked out. It’s a VA loan so there are things i was not familiar with. I called the lender and he filled me in. I decided to give the buyer a sum to cover all that instead of going through it line by line. Then i unchecked everything that had me paying for it. He can take care of it out of his “credit”.
We have a deal. the little problem i have is that i am out of town and my son’s printer does ot scan. Hope we can do this through docusign.
In the meantime, i had gotten another offer which was 30k less than my asking price. I blew him off. Now they come back with a 34k counter. I opened the documents and look at the “pre-approval” letter. Folks, those terms are thrown around and they don’t mean anything unless the lender has sent a letter than says they have checked everything the buyer told them. Otherwise it’s a pre-qual letter and is not worth the paper its printed on.
In this market, don’t make stupid offers unless the house is a junker. Sellers get upset.
