[banjo5]

Has anyone successfully been able to dicker on the price of a new home in TV? I come from a culture where we dicker on everything. I even dicker in Home Depot and Walmart on big ticket items. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I feel uncomfortable paying the asking price on anything, especially a home.

[graciegirl]

I am pretty good at negotiating prices on large things too....... But sit down my friend and listen carefully. You will get nowhere here on the changing of the price of a new home. If it is built, and you want to buy it, there will be no additions of blinds unless they are in the house, no changing of appliances, and no painting. A spec house is AS IS in price with no additions or subtractions. When you build a house you have choices. There are none to be had when you buy a new house. But they are priced very fairly in my humble opinion.

[banjo5]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I am pretty good at negotiating prices on large things too....... But sit down my friend and listen carefully. You will get nowhere here on the changing of the price of a new home. If it is built, and you want to buy it, there will be no additions of blinds unless they are in the house, no changing of appliances, and no painting. A spec house is AS IS in price with no additions or subtractions. When you build a house you have choices. There are none to be had when you buy a new house. But they are priced very fairly in my humble opinion.

Our home is nothing but a sandbox right now. Not one single shovel has been pushed into the ground. Sure we want to build here but, hmmmm, who knows, maybe a few grand can make it happen. Whattaya think!

[l2ridehd]

Unless something has changed in the last few months, not going to happen. I agreed to pay the asking price for a home if they would change the front door. Wanted a leaded glass one and it was plain. They could have just swapped it with the house next door. I even started to make out the check. They walked away from the deal. So dicker all you want on a resale, but unless your ready to pay the asking price on a new home, you will probably end up living elsewhere. I ended up buying a resale for that very reason. Really felt I got a better value anyway.

[katezbox]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

Unless something has changed in the last few months, not going to happen. I agreed to pay the asking price for a home if they would change the front door. Wanted a leaded glass one and it was plain. They could have just swapped it with the house next door. I even started to make out the check. They walked away from the deal. So dicker all you want on a resale, but unless your ready to pay the asking price on a new home, you will probably end up living elsewhere. I ended up buying a resale for that very reason. Really felt I got a better value anyway.

I wanted the opposite - maybe we can switch doors?

[rshoffer]

Nope.

[KayakerNC]

Originally Posted by banjo5

Has anyone successfully been able to dicker on the price of a new home in TV? I come from a culture where we dicker on everything. I even dicker in Home Depot and Walmart on big ticket items. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I feel uncomfortable paying the asking price on anything, especially a home.

You can always try....can't hurt.
Personally, I think that any successful negotiators have been sworn to Super-Secrecy and been forced to sign legally binding non-disclosure agreements.

[Army Guy]

Kayaker, you are a hoot!
Yes, that is what we have learned also. Sort of like when we bought a Saturn years ago. The proce on the sticker is the price you pay. We even talke about what if we buy and unbuilt CYV, can we tell you what we want? The answer, NOOOOO!!!! Spec is spec and price is THE price.

Army Guy

[Indy-Guy]

Perhaps that one main reason that The Villages dosen't dicker on price of new homes is that would be the first thing that people would ask of their neighbors when they move into their new home.

How mad would banjo5 be if he moved in and asked the neighbor what type of a discount did he get and it is more than banjo5 got. Talk of The Villages would be full of those type of stories.

I sold cars for over 30 years and beleive me many people will tell you about the deal they got the only problem they will tell you they saved more than they really did because they are afraid that you did better than them.

Once The Villages opens that can of worms they would have a nightmare. Sure they will reduce an inventory home that has set for 90 days and the neighbors understand and aren't mad but if they did it right out of the shoot then the problems would be a nightmare.

If you want to dicker look a pre-owned homes.