You have to sweeten the deal.

I'm pretty handy so I convinced her to let me make all the repairs it needed after the FHA inspection to sweeten the pot on both ends of the deal (scraping paint and repainting is pretty easy) . 

But don't pony up that money until you come to terms on a price and terms, unless you are confident you can get the property at your offer price and you need to sweeten the deal by waiving inspection.

You may need to sweeten this a little so it's more attractive but this would be a good model.

She's unclear on what her options might be to lower/eliminate her fee or what else she might be able to do to help sweeten our offer.Thanks everyone!

Perhaps sweeten the change by adding the entire down payment to EMD, or offer $380k?

By going route, we save 2% transfer tax, I leverage my empty rental to sweeten the deal, we avoid holding cost and closing costs on the purchase.

You may be able to sweeten the deal and sign your own contract with that tenant as the new land lord once you take ownership.

Offering a percentage of the sale will only sweeten the deal. 4.

I'm looking for ideas on how to sweeten the deal.