(Imagine if they had countered your offer at $500 higher, would you have accepted it?

Then proposing adding one more room to paint and then let him counter.

Unfortunately, those are treated as personal expenses and aren’t deductible.As for the repairs and improvements, fixing leaky pipes counts as a repair and can be fully expensed in the current year.

Assuming it’s not a 50 year old home with lead paint, asbestos, lead pipes, etc etc.

A lot of people will agree, but I did want to provide some context for counter arguments that people may have that you should be prepared for: 1.

The Left must resist the urge to “help” with short-sighted, counter-productive policies like rent control.

As for listing agents, they have two primary jobs: to advise on listing price and to help sellers review and counter buyer offers. 

They let it freeze and pipes break.

I am just looking at numbers provided by Zillow.I agree that the cost for most items such as a Roof, HVAC, Piping will be similar between a cheap home and an expensive home.

Since it was discussed with the loan officer the borrowers were seeking to create rental portfolio assets, they likely knew the borrower who was not present at signing would not have signed that, but apparently the one who was there signed everything presented to her to the point of her hand cramping, without being aware one of those signatures countered their plans for the purchase.