Thanks for the article, I think I will send it along with my counteroffer.

Furthermore, with the addition of a few additional pieces of information, you can use this as a counter-offer to the lender as well.

When that happens, I have actually made counter offers where I explain my entire "sales pitch" about why the buyers should go with my lender and I have found that it sometimes works because the agent has to forward it to her clients.Has anyone else tried this approach to get around the buyer's agent being a bottleneck?

Frequently, the summary of your offer is sufficient for the bank to receive in order for them to give a counteroffer.

IMHO, it sounds like you already have the basis for your counter offer.

However , we recently put a bid on a house that has been listed for a while and we offered 14k less - suddenly , we are the middle of counter offers and are further along with this property than any others we have approached so far. .

no counter offer, say $450 per....i guess they weren't that awesome

I made an offer for $20k, which was rejected by the seller without a counter offer.

In addition to the above posts, an additional material difference in the HUD home disposition process is that HUD now provides a counter offer on rejected bids.

What was the BPO value (if known) or lender's counteroffer?