What needs to be included in a low ball offer?

Question

I am going to make a low ball offer on a house. What all needs to be included in the offer? What can I reasonably put on the sellers shoulders?

Answer 1

If you are going to low ball it, then I wouldn't ask for anything else, otherwise you run the risk of ticking them off.
You need to weigh your options, 1st, how bad do you want THIS particular home?
If this is a house you have your heart set on, then I would watch my step, because like the above person mentioned you could run the risk of them not wanting to counter offer at all!
However, if you don't care that much, then ask for whatever else you want, the only thing you can do is learn from experience, and if this doesn't work out however you decide to do it, at least learn from it!

Answer 2

Anything you think you can get away with.

A lowball offer is an offer well below the asking price. It's often used to figure out how desperate a seller is. But be careful. If you go too low or ask for too much, the seller may simply ignore it, as well as offers more reasonable at least from you.

I got an insultingly low offer from my tenant when selling one of my rentals. I just told the realtor to tell them that I had not responded to the offer. I refused to counter or even bargain with them at all.

Answer 3

Hmmm... what to REASONABLY put in a LOW BALL OFFER. Bit of an oxymoron don't ya think?

If you either want it rejected/ignored or you simply take pleasure in watching someone squirm as you twist the knife in them, then go ahead and ask for a low price, closing costs, new appliances, and the half completed 1967 Mustang in the garage.

If you want a good deal on the house, then make it a clean cash offer.

Answer 4

Ask for a current or previous appraisal on the house.
If your reason for the low ball offer is that the place needs redemption by complete gutting and extensive renovation, include the cost estimate.
Talk to your real estate agent for other matters that you have to include, since you need to physically check the site, building, relation to utilities, proximity to services, etc etc.
Dont forget that an offer is a binding contract when accepted, so be very careful what you write and what you may forget to write.in there.

Answer 5

As-Is is often extra captivating to a broker than an furnish that includes various expectancies for maintenance to be made. yet except there are defects the owner knows approximately and fails to demonstrate, you have limited recourse after remaining besides. the prospect to the seller is once you come to words with an settlement that includes an inspection contingency, and the seller could desire to then tell different involved events that an furnish has been common and doubtlessly lose a purchaser to timing. Then in the adventure that your inspection properly-knownshows a illness which you do no longer enable the seller to treatment, the seller has in result taken their residing house off the marketplace for the quantity of time between the common furnish and you workout consultation your acceptable to cancel because of the inspection findings. Then the owner is likewise forced with the certainty of the illness your inspection revealed, and has to demonstrate that to destiny shoppers. those issues make the no-inspection, as-is furnish extra captivating. yet in all probability no longer a extensive distinction in fee basically using those reward except the owner does suspect there are issues from the valuables sitting vacant for 3 years. As you point out, its a purchaser's industry obtainable.

Answer 6

I agree with a previous answer...if you really want the house than you need to make a reasonable offer.

Answer 7

This gets tricky. Check the answer from Bostonian and get advice from your Buyer Agent. They will have the best feel for what to do.
Good Luck

Answer 8

Appliances, Blinds/Window coverings, any and all fixtures, closing costs, and possibly even your downpayment, check will your buyer's agent, if you have one.