{"id":41,"date":"2008-04-16T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-08-17T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T04:37:13","slug":"offer-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/04\/16\/offer-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Offer is in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I decided to submit an official offer on <a href=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/04\/15\/its-never-the-last-house\/\">the off-market house I saw yesterday<\/a>. I am not sure I want the house yet and I definitely need to do some inspections, but my agent&#8217;s advice in this case is good: go ahead and lock it up under contract and then spend the next week deciding if you really want it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t agree with my agent&#8217;s advice on the price I should bid, however. I want to come in $150,000 less than what the seller wants.  My agent doesn&#8217;t think I should come in more than $50,000 below. This illustrates another reason why I think <a href=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2007\/11\/01\/on-real-estate-agents-and-finding-properties\/\">the value of real estate agents is overrated<\/a>: their motivation is to get you a house as quickly as possible at any price that is <em>comfortable<\/em> to you (and thus collect a nice commission). My motivation is to get a house that I want at <em>as low of a price as possible<\/em>. If I bid $150,000 less than the ask, the seller can always say no and then I can come up quickly to his price, if need be.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I just did.  We&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I decided to submit an official offer on the off-market house I saw yesterday. I am not sure I want the house yet and I definitely need to do some inspections, but my agent&#8217;s advice in this case is good: go ahead and lock it up under contract and then spend the next week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}