The Offer They Couldn't Refuse
Well, I mean, a few of them tried, but I have that sticky way of getting some people to like me while everybody else just wants to do what they can to make me go away. I'm like a Midwestern Catholic Larry David. Anyway, the offer. Starting point: $220,000 Estimated repairs needed: A Googledy-Billion So we needed to shave some scratch off this bad boy to make it even remotely feasible that we could do the remodel work and afford to be here. What to offer? After some back and forth with our agent, we settled on an opening offer of $210,000. This was hard to suck up, given our last home buying experience was in 2015-2016, a very different market. Still, I was impressed that our agent was willing to head out of the gate under list price. Bold. But, she said, we should write a letter. The Ethics of Writing "The Letter." I have heard more lately about the questionable ethics of writing the homebuyer's "love letter." I struggle with this too. I mean, I love my par
