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When we brought this place I had put in 3 offers on other places and got royaly dicked around. So I called the agent and went "My offer is 5k below asking range. Take it or leave it. Present it to your clients and if they agree you'll have the writing in offer 2 seconds after you call me. But Im not sending you a deposit to just talk to them". Turns out we were the only one, got it for 5k below the asking range (which even then was probably 10k too much). Worst case, they come back and say "Nah, how about X instead". But you never open negotiations high in the vendors favor. You miss 100% of the shots you dont take. Good luck!
Yep. I don't want to dick around either. If I like it and the BS comes through ok I'll put in an offer that can be without subjecting to finance, dude can go on his merry way (apparently divorce and ex is taking him for everything), while I still have to fix up the issues. It's going to be a ridiculously low offer though but he is happy to negotiate. And if not. I am not in any hurry either.
When you say ridiculously low, How low are we talking? Like if the range is 400-450k you're not going in at like 290k or something silly right?
No. It will be about 50k less without finance needed (and considering highlighted issues) I very much doubt they will take it but it might kick the ball rolling on a good deal.