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Originally Posted by senior citizen
Yes, plus it shows the property tax and what the home sold for previously and how many times it sold......as you say above, it's very useful.
However, having been on both ends of the buying and selling........I can see how it aids the buyer, in our case now............but not necessarily the seller.
Great minds think alike !! You are right about the negotioation part.
Last time we bought a home was twenty years ago (but five homes and one condo in our 48 years of marriage). Times have certainly changed since then.
Years ago, people set a price and the buyer just bought it at that price. There was no negotiation. But, we watch all of those HOUSE HUNTERS and INTERNATIONAL HOUSE HUNTERS t.v. shows and nowadays LOTS of negotiation is done............I am not looking forward to going through the selling process this time around.
Thanks for your input. (See my earlier post about what we did to all of our homes over the past 48 years of marriage).......
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I've owned 4 homes in my life. The first one was purchased from my grandparents. I always thought that it was odd that you needed to "make an offer" on a home. In most transactions you pay the price asked for, you don't get to bargain about price.
I used to foolishly think that if the home was priced at say $100,000 and you had the 100 large to pay that was that. But no..you need to "make an offer". And then see if the seller will accept it.
Now today as you point out after seeing the various flavors of "House Hunter" shows negotiation is required. So if the price is 100k then you're supposed to open at 75k and go from there. So I guess if you really want to get $100,000 for your home you've got to list it at 150!
The thing that we absolutely will never do is to pay the buyer's closing costs. I see this all the time on House Hunters & Property Brothers. When we sold our last home before moving south we told our realtor that if we got an offer that included us paying any part of the buyer's closing costs we wouldn't even look at the offer. If you can't pay your own closing costs you shouldn't be out trying to buy a home.