If the first real estate project taught me one thing - it was to be prepared. You have to be ready to pull the trigger immediately when you come across a good deal. That means having everything in place so you are ready to go. See one of my previous posts that discusses what this […]
The Offer
We received our first offer. Finally! The person found out about our property through one of our metropolitan area newspaper advertisements. The property was originally listed for $2.375 million. The offer came in at $2.1 million. This was an 11.6% discount from list. What would you do?
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We were nearing completion on the property and still hadn’t received an offer. This had us worried. The monthly carrying costs were approaching $11,000 per month! This was the highest priced lake home ever done on speculation on this lake. It was time to re-evaluate the asking price of $2.375 million dollars. If we had […]
If you remember from a previous post, we were marketing the property ourselves. We wanted the sales team at the development to represent the property. However, they wouldn’t budge from the 6% sales commission. On a multi-million property, this was a significant amount of money. In addition, they didn’t really have any marketing plan whatsoever […]
Marketing Plan
If you remember from a previous post, we had decided to not have the development’s agents represent our property because of their unwillingness to negotiate on the 6% commission. We were going to sell the property ourselves. We developed our own marketing plan that consisted of:
Produce color renderings and floor plans and have them […]
This post is about negotiation tricks and tactics. Successful real estate development and investing requires you to be a good negotiator. Understanding the common negotiating tactics that may be used by you or on you is essential to becoming skilled at negotiation. Whether or not you choose to use these tactics, it is vital to […]
