Or if the place looks better than the pictures (although that can ding marketing, but improve reaction relative to expectations.)To be honest, I am not a superhost, largely because of value being rated low and resulting overall rating.

You'd need to line itemize the closing costs and tell us how much you're buying the property for to get a real opinion of where you might be getting hosed, if anywhere.For an example, on a recent $200k cash purchase closing I had here in Raleigh, I paid $550 to the attorney for his fee to conduct the title search and close the loan (this is higher than I typically pay but I closed at an atty's office that I don't usually close at due to other semantics surrounding the deal itself and the seller). 

My advice is to talk to your broker and just be honest.  I

In all honesty, I think the rest of the country is just catching up to my area.

Though I'll be honest I don't full understand how it works so I hope someone can help me out.

How about trying honesty and integrity - I find that works just fine!

To be honest I am not sure if you absolutely need to, I am no real estate lawyer, but to be safe I would write up two contracts.Good luck.

To be honest, I really didn't think the offer would be accepted and our assignment fee would go down as we kept going up on the offer

I do appreciate your honesty.

Finally, there is always the question of honesty.