Short Sale offer on MLS

[Kelly Payne]

If I'm making an offer on an MLS property, and my buyer's agent found out that it's short sale pending, what's the best way to present my offer?

I want to offer $82,000. It has an ARV of $100-105k and it's already been completely remodeled. It's been sitting on the market for a while, and the price has just been reduced to 115k, but they're trying to do a short sale.

So when I submit my offer, how can I communicate to the seller that he can accept my offer and allow me (well, our short sale investor friend) to do the negotiations and paperwork on his behalf? I thought about including a typed explanation and attaching it to the contract.