Plus let’s say you see a place you love in March and put an offer on a house mid-March you might be counter offering for a week or two and then settle on a closing date 6-8 weeks out from then to put you closer to your summer window.

Jeff Ihnen - Ask your agent to ask the listing agent for a counter offer.

The listing agent might not even be presenting your counter offers knowing they can get a higher price with another investor. 

I got my first offer accepted yesterday on a bank owned property. My agent sent me the contract docs which I esigned right back to him. I also got the earnest money deposit the bank required and took a picture of it f...

We are currently waiting on a counter offer. 

If it has, you will get a counter-offer instead of an approval.

When I mentioned it to my agent, she stated that it would be assured to alienate the seller and would most likely not receive a counter offer as it's over 44K lower than asking and has only been on the market for a week.

A: ORC § 4735.18(A)(36) provides that a licensee is subject to disciplinary sanctions if the licensee is found to have “failed to inform the licensee’s client of the existence of an offer or counteroffer or having failed to present an offer or counter offer in a timely manner, unless otherwise instructed by the client, provided the instruction of the client does not conflict with any state or federal law.”

If they just low ball me for giggles, I don't even bother with a counter offer.

Once a contract is changed it is a counter offer if the counter offer is not accepted the contract is null and void