If someone promised me to return 24% on money borrowed and gave me a piece of paper I would make a counter offer to sell them a Brooklyn bridge.

-Would you then "offer" or bring up the potential ACTUAL cost as a counter offer? 

Hello fellow homebuyers,
I recently made an offer on a house with an inspection contingency covering the roof, foundation, electrical, plumbing, backyard fencing, and pest infestation. The house is already occupied b...

Back to today: I got off the phone with my agent, where I communicated how I wanted to present my offer (in summary: if the seller rejects my original offer, I hope they'll make a counteroffer, but if I decline that counteroffer, I will move on to make an offer on the next property of the few I am interested in the market - this is to avoid a back-and-forth and the property had been listed for a year with a 25% price cut in that time).

So I counteroffered $182K.

My goal is to not make my first offer so generous that the seller accepts it without making a counter offer. 

I was getting counter offer rates for 3.0% from different investors. 

If there’s sufficient evidence to conclude that a deal can be made, it may be necessary to go through another round, or even two of offer - counter offer before reaching an agreeable price. 

Otherwise, counter offer accounting for the cost of repairs.

Catch the seller’s attention with a competitive offer that will at the very least, produce a counter offer.