I'd love a counter offer but we will see. 

And the seller came back with a counteroffer through his seller agent.

Only for me to pick it up again 3 months later when the list price for each one dropped pretty close to what my counter offer had been. 

I would absolutely wait until  the full report is in- if you don't and you go back with a purchase price reduction counter offer of to little (in terms of asking) and another bigger item comes along, you're only the seller's acceptance away from being locked into the deal. 

-Verbal agreements or counter offers mean nothing.

@Zeke Liston I actually just got my report from the home inspector so am going to go through with at least a counter offer on the issues.

Asking price was $219,000, I offered $210,000 but the counteroffer was $214,000. 

After my initial conversation with the broker and partner, we felt like we could offer 100k lesser than asking which we tried and they counter offered 50k less so it was a good start right away.

They don't play games like auction.com, which allows the seller to bid up the price, and the recycles the listing if the reserve is not met.Did you always hit the reserve price or did you get counter offers back I ask because we currently offered the starting bid and it ends tomorrow so it's been on the mls for three months owner occupied here is the  Sale history10/14/22 Price ChangedCHTMLSPrice Changed$127,000-14.8%$149,0009/16/22474%CHTMLS-9.7%8/18/22Listed / Active$165,000CHTMLS736.3%Sold7/21/22Public Record$19,730 

In those auctions I'd frequently get counter-offers if the bids were too low for the trustees to accept and that was the only way I ever got my money back.