Still never a bad idea to see what the market has to offer. 

@Christopher Dean Totally agree with the inability to offer second chances unfortunately.

Its your job to offer what works for you, and it's their job to say no. 

@Freddy Alban, another option is to offer to pay them for their time to walk the property with you. 

Not looking to discourage you, I just want to offer you a different perspective. 

With that being said, depending on location relative to the federal courthouse and the Capitol building you may be able to offer STR options for out of state officials.

I felt the asking price was very fair and knowing the interest this property would gather I chose to offer asking price.

The first agent pressured my wife and I to offer on higher-priced homes, so that toward the end we narrowed our criteria to only nonnegotiable items: The house had to have a good foundation, sell for under $100,000 and be in the school district we needed.We purchased our starter home, much to the first agent's chagrin, and after the deal, we agreed not to work with her again.For my second home, I worked with a referral agent.

I was then allowed to offer my 'rebuttal'.I explained that I was away on business during the time & I was told she had 'voluntarily packed up & left'.

I get sellers want to know where money is coming from but it seems when I have contacted hard money lenders they want specifics about the property which also makes sense, so do you have your hard money lender look at every place you want to offer on?