The light is shining through.
Wow, my agent is such a hardball.
We finally got the deal closed last night, all verbal agreements with just a few initials required by myself on the document changes. I tell you, my agent’s just great. He played his cards well in the negotiations. He knew exactly what I was welling to go to and we knew exactly what the finished place we lost out on went for.
Alright, so Agent Shadow, the one I post about in my previous post, had finally came back with a counter-offer. The counter was definitely too much; 117. He told her, not just no, but hell no and reminded her knows the value of the place as she just sold the last place. Given this is a fixer-upper, it’s worth much less. So, she called back her clients and got 116 from them. My agent still wasn’t going for it; “I know what my client’s bottom line is and you better to better than that,” as he put it. She called her clients again, dropped to 115. He still wasn’t going for it. He did say it’s better but still needs some work, “You’re still not close; I know he won’t go for that.” So, she calls her client back, gets them to drop 114 and then informed my agent if they dropped any lower, they would have to bring money to the closing. My agent was apparently just having a ball giving her a hard time; “Well, it’s still not at my client’s bottom line, but let me check with him and see what he says.” We already hit my bottom line. haha … I told my agent earlier that morning 114-115 was my cap. Talk about playing hard. That’s just awesome. So, we got the place for 114, up from my 109 bid but down from the 119,900 original price. For a point of reference, the last place sold at 118.
Now, we have a contract, finally! I have inspections tonight to go over everything. The foundation is known, but within specs — been told by multiple parties. It is a fixer-upper, so I do expect to get a laundry list of things that will need fixing. I was referred the inspector and my folks told me he was really good and extremely detailed. I found out this morning he spent over 4 hours on my parent’s place. Now that’s detailed.
I’m glad to see things are finally coming together now. With any luck, we should be closing here on the 10th. It all depends, now, on how fast my mortgage guy can get things rolling…and how hard my agent pushes. lol
I will let everybody know of the address and post some photos once closing is finished. I don’t to get people’s hopes up just yet. Besides, I will have plenty of time to convert everything over. Providing we do close here on the 10th, I’ll have that weekend and the following weekend to get moved and shifted over before the Thanksgiving get together in Colorado Springs.
