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Buyer’s Agent: “So, What’s the Seller’s Real Bottom Line??”

Listing Agent Retort: “I’ll Tell You Right After You Tell Me How High the Buyer is Willing to Go” You (almost) never hear a listing agent (representing a Seller) say to a Buyer’s agent at the outset of negotiations: “let’s cut to the chase; what’s the most your Buyer will pay for my client’s property?”...
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Buyer’s Agent: “Would the Seller Take $___ for Their Home??”

Flushing Out the Seller’s Bottom Line (or trying to) Listing agents (representing the Seller) know that there are three cards you never show the other side: 1) the client’s bottom-line price; 2) their preferred purchase agreement terms (closing date, down payment, earnest money, inspection contingency, etc.); and 3) their motivation. Which doesn’t mean that Buyers...
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Buyer’s Agent: “So, What’s the Seller’s Real Bottom Line??”

Listing Agent Retort: “I’ll Tell You Right After You Tell Me How High the Buyer is Willing to Go” You (almost) never hear a listing agent (representing a Seller) say to a Buyer’s agent at the outset of negotiations: “let’s cut to the chase; what’s the most your Buyer will pay for my client’s property?”...
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Buyer’s Agent: “So, What’s the Seller’s Real Bottom Line??”

Listing Agent Retort: “I’ll Tell You Right After You Tell Me How High the Buyer is Willing to Go” You (almost) never hear a listing agent (representing a Seller) say to a Buyer’s agent at the outset of negotiations: “let’s cut to the chase; what’s the most your Buyer will pay for my client’s property?”...
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Listing Agent: “I’m Presenting Offers Tomorrow Night at 6 p.m.”

Seller Semantics “As I am smoking . . . I don’t expect to be thanked.” —What John Hurt’s character ” in “Love and Death on Long Island” (1997) ” says to the cab driver, when the latter points to the cab’s “Thank You For Not Smoking” sign, and asks Hurt to extinguish his cigarette. Shortly after showing their client a new-on-the...
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Buyer’s Agent: “So, What’s the Seller’s Real Bottom Line??”

Listing Agent Retort:  “I’ll Tell You Right After You Tell Me How High the Buyer is Willing to Go” You (almost) never hear a listing agent (representing a Seller) say to a Buyer’s agent at the outset of negotiations:  “let’s cut to the chase; what’s the most your Buyer will pay for my client’s property?”...
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