paneled walls, shag carpet, and lurid orange kitchen. When you work with an agent, you can express your opinions on the current owner’s decorating skills and complain about how much it will cost to upgrade the home without insulting the owner. Your agent will translate that to the seller via their agent in such a way that won't insult them. Your agent will let them know that you may have an interest in the but can see having to spend $xx in decorating costs, and thus the reason for the lower offer.
CONTRACTUALLY SPEAKING…
There are many contracts and documents involved in purchasing a home. The stack can easily end up being more than an inch thick. Unless you’re a real estate lawyer or title agent, these documents will be foreign to you. Yet, they require detailed
and accurate completions. Buying a property is not a “fill-in-the-blanks” transaction and a mistake, let’s say in title work, could haunt any buyer (or seller) well down the line after purchase. This very situation happened. A property that sat on a double lot was put on the market. The neighbor
bought it to carve off a bit of the second lot to expand his yard. He now owned his home and the home next to his along with the 2nd lot in between the homes. He then put just the other home that was originally on the double lot on the market and it sold which would have left him with his home and the part of the 2nd lot he wanted for himself. Months later, through a property tax notification, it came out that in preparing new deeds for the properties, the expanded yard area
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