{"id":114,"date":"2008-07-08T19:36:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-08-20T20:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T03:08:49","slug":"on-the-precipice-of-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/07\/08\/on-the-precipice-of-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Precipice of a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/07\/03\/the-end-around\/\">Calling the seller directly<\/a> last week turned out to be a great idea. Our rapport is excellent and we&#8217;ve already traded several phone calls and a number of long, well-reasoned e-mails backing up our positions and compromises.  To try and describe the emotional rollercoaster of this back-and-forth in a blog entry would not do it justice. It&#8217;s very trying, but it&#8217;s also been very educational. Negotiating the sale of your company is both very different and very similar to negotiating the purchase of your home.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, very long story short, I eventually came up $150,000 from my initial bid (which is still $150,000 less than the asking price), offered to put down $100,000 in earnest money and waive all contingencies except geotech, and the seller has tentatively accepted!  I&#8217;m happy with where we ended up, because it was the exact dollar amount that I decided from the outset I would be 100% comfortable with.  I won&#8217;t exhale until we have a signed contract, but it appears we&#8217;re within eyesight of the finish line!<\/p>\n<p>Will try to get a good night&#8217;s sleep tonight after a week of tossing, turning, and overanalyzing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling the seller directly last week turned out to be a great idea. Our rapport is excellent and we&#8217;ve already traded several phone calls and a number of long, well-reasoned e-mails backing up our positions and compromises. To try and describe the emotional rollercoaster of this back-and-forth in a blog entry would not do it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}