I told Joe today that I’m not bending over backwards for any of these people trying to sell their home. We found another place that we liked and put in an offer this morning. The sellers counter-offered us asking for more earnest money, a rent back option and they only went down $2900 in price. Well why don’t I just bend over? To me that’s insulting. If you want to add contingencies, how about being more flexible in price?
So we counter-offered with more earnest money than they asked for, an option to push out the closing date (they can choose between two different dates) since we are uncomfortable with the rent back, and a lower final offer price than we originally were going to offer. But hell, if they want us to give, then they must be willing to do so too. I’m not playing that game like we did with the last sellers.
Our agent called us a bit ago to say they want to give us an answer tomorrow after they check their options to close on a new place (since they haven’t bought anything yet). Our agent seems to think that since they didn’t balk at the price and that they didn’t flat out say no that it’s a good sign. Of course, after what happened, we are paranoid enough to think they could be lying and either waiting for another offer, or working with someone else who already put in another offer. In any case, I’m not worried, so it doesn’t matter much to me. It didn’t take us that long to find this place, so we’ll find another. That’s my attitude now.
I guess we’ll see what happens tomorrow.