Negotiating and Real Estate

October 7, 2008 | By Kelley Koehler | Filed Under Home Buying, Home Selling 

Question from the audience: What’s your negotiating style?


Answer: Whichever way you’re most comfortable with.


I like to discuss negotiating styles with my clients before we get too far along in either the home buying or home selling process. Some folks are very aggressive, and aren’t happy with the result unless each party has gone back and forth several times with counter offers. Some folks want to make one offer and be done with it.


For you to be happy with the outcome of your home negotiations, I need to make sure that I know how you want me to negotiate on your behalf. You want to be hard-line aggressive? We can do that. Is this the one you have to have and you’re prepared to step up and take it? We can do that too. It’s all your choice.


You’ll still get my advice and my take on the situation, of course. Over the past years as a real estate agent here in Tucson, I’ve gotten pretty good at reading the situation, and usually have some kind of idea as to what will or will not work. But I think it is important that you’re happy with the process, regardless of the outcome. Just another thing you ought to be discussing with your agent.

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