Negotiating Your Offer

When you start looking for homes you are likely narrowing down the choices according to your budget. You might find a dozen or so that are affordable and fit your needs and then will eventually work your way down to making an offer on just one of the Mississauga or Burlington Ontario homes for sale. This is when it comes time to make an offer and wait those excruciating hours to see that it's accepted. If you're buying a home during a seller's market than you're likely offering less than the asking price. Instead of accepting or rejecting that offer as is the seller's might be willing to negotiate further. Here are some tips to help you through that process.

Before you start the negotiating process you should make sure that you know what is a fair price for the property within the current market. Remember that buying a home is an investment as well as being a personal experience of finding your ideal place to live. You should also keep in mind that prices can shift quite suddenly and that what you might be selling your North York real estate for in comparison to the listing price might be completely different than what the seller's can expect to get for their Mississauga home.


Know you're limits and the things that you cannot budge on. When you've fallen in love with a unit at 55 Delisle Avenue or a home in Port Credit it can become quite easy to get carried away in the negotiating process and end up paying more than you meant to or compromising on something that you really shouldn't have. Your real estate agent is likely going to be helping you through this process so you should make sure that they know your limits as well. You might have a specific date that you need to be moved in by or just a strict budget.

Put a personal face on your offer. Instead of just giving them a form with your offer price and conditions for that Mississauga Ontario real estate on it you can tell them a little about yourself. This usually makes a huge difference on how much they're willing to budge if you are a first-time homebuyer with a strict budget or maybe need to move quickly to start a new job in the city. People generally have a difficult time parting with their home in a sale and it seems to make it easier if they know the person that they're selling it to just a little. You could just explain that you're moving from PEI real estate and would like an early closing date or that you've already been preapproved for financing.




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