Sounds like a good number to me. Hope your potential buyers are rational folks and you can come to terms.
Sorry.. home warranty is cheap and it is expected by a number of people.. it would not make a difference with the gap that is here...
lot. We are listed with a discount broker (on realtor.com and forsalebyowner.com and the house has its own website which I built) so we have done all the marketing ourselves.
I'd add to this, actually. There is a common belief among buyers that if you are going FSBO (more or less), that means you have close to 6% more "wiggle room" in your pricing.This is probably the reason you are getting lowballed. While I know many on here have sold their own homes, this is still NOT a great real estate market. The ONE thing you are missing are BUYERS, which is what realtors provide.
We have made the buyer's agent's job easy because the home is in perfect condition and shows very well. No need for the agent to explain to the buyer why a little paint here and there and maybe some new carpet will make the home good as new.
The counter-offer of $267,500 was faxed at 8:30 am and I have asked for a response by the end of the weekend. Happy to spend the time working on it and it is not considered wasted time in this market! I might have felt different if the offer came in so low and was not an all cash offer.
Our turn to wait although the buyers didn't have to wait 24 hours for our response. Hopefully, another interested buyer will show up at Sunday's open house and we can make this real interesting!
Looks like that has been taken care of:Guess my point is they may be back but it would seem that a listing price that is well over what the house will appraise for might be a problem for most people?
Texas - I reduced the listing price to $279,900 about 3 weeks ago not long after I received the refi appraisal. The price on Realtor.com had been changed and I had stickers on my flyers in the flyer box that said, "reduced $20,000 to $279,900." The price was also updated on the house website, forsalebyowner.com, craigslist and zillow.com. I also advertised the new price and price reduction in our weekly county newspaper. I also had a "price reduced" topper made for our sign.
Looks like that has been taken care of:
. The lack of a basement is an issue around here but we have a huge three car garage (3 individual doors) and an additional 400 square feet on the second floor which we are marketing as our "basement up above!" I have attached a picture. If it was just about the space, the space is available but the word "basement" is part of the culture around here.