Success! Played hardball and it paid off!

[Jamie Blair]

Just wanted to share a little success story! There was this great duplex listed in my target area, and as soon as it popped up, I told my partner that we needed to see it asap. It was listed at a very reasonable price and was recently renovated and vacant on one side. We set up a viewing for the next day BUT the tenant required 48hrs notice……the next day we viewed the vacant side, and then when our realtor left, we knocked on the door of the other unit any kindly offered $50 to take a quick peek. They agreed and voila! We liked what we saw and put an offer in right away. (They requested 24hr to review any offers). The next day our realtor called us and said that the seller had changed their mind and wanted to hold an open house because of all the interest, and said that they wouldn’t be viewing any offers now until a set time after the open house. This was like 2hr before our offer was set to expire….we said no, take it or leave but we won’t be offering again. Our realtor was like « oh really?? » , to be honest, we would have bid again, but I felt like he would have revealed that if we told him that….so we bluffed him too, which is not great. But with like 5minutes to spare, our deal was accepted!! Great property at an awesome price! 😎