We put an offer in on a condo. It was listed at 239k. Our realtor happened to be best friends with the realtor selling. Our realtor said there was an offer already for 260k and we should go for 265k to seal the deal. We put our offer in after the first open house.
Come deadline time I get a text from my realtor saying that there was an offer 7k more than ours (272k) and that we should go up 3500 and that we had a strong chance still because our mortgage broker is the same guy as the sellers broker (who works with both realtors closely). We said no we’re going to stay at our 265k and whatever happens, happens. A couple hours later I get a call from my realtor that the sellers countered our original offer of 265k and say if we go to 267k then it’s ours.
This made us feel a little weird like what does 2k do for them? Why not just take the person that was 7k more? So again we said our offer is only 265k firm. Our realtor says okay I’ll get back to you, and within 9 minutes on the dot comes back with “CONGRATS THEY ACCEPTED YOUR ORIGINAL OFFER!!!!!!”
And I’m just not excited. I feel like maybe my realtor and the other realtor were just fishing for money or something with the way they were asking for a little bit more and when we were firm they were like “okay well they chose you!”. When I asked my realtor on the phone why they wouldn’t just choose someone for 7k more, he said it was because “he’s good at negotiating” and that “we have the same mortgage broker so it makes everything easier”
And I’m like finally an offer accepted after over a year of looking. We NEED somewhere by June time. But I can’t help but think, was there ever a 260k offer? Was there ever a 272k offer? Or did my realtor just throw those numbers out to have us go crazy high on it.
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