As many have said the status of the relationship between GC and owner will carry a lot of weight in terms payment terms.

Trump got significant tax reductions in his first term when essentially all demorats proposed tax increases.Of course, we don't want guess work, but we also don't want to ignore the direction that the tax policy will be headed.

I do have the text message conversation where the landlord agreed to the reduction in exchange of the two bedrooms.

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Assessing brokers based on their transaction history and success in the market carries more weight than simply focusing on the highest price offered.

So the buyer's technique got them a $100,000 price reduction.

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There are plenty of buying opportunities and we are starting to see some price reductions despite what others say.   

Contrary to what everyone seems to be saying these days, a good agent is worth their weight in gold.

And if you only talking $1-200k it is not a massive initial reduction depending on their basis.