The buyers have talked about refinancing next year when several things drop off their credit report.

As you are in Mass, and didn't look at the house, if I were Listing Agent my #1 fear would be your are strictly an investor, we get to inspection and you come up with too many inspection issues dropping price.

I'm sure they are right about the vacancy rates flattening out, but that's not the only factor to consider.I have two duplexes, looking to acquire about 3 more, but probably won't go beyond that unless I plan on dropping out of my corporate job.

Then they use a trade name that drops the ending (just like many LLCs do).In fact, I think "Realty Corporation" or "Realty Corp" sounds a little weird and confusing.But again, that's just me...and it's quite possible I'm in the minority here...

If you take the time to go out to someone's house and ask simple questions and let them tell you about their house, its amazing how you can get a 20k price drop just by showing up.Its so simple it works!

I have the other half ready and gonna drop them around the first of the month.

Then I can drop the builders risk policy (or let is run out) or the vacant policy.  

Jordan Vires Do you think the seller is motivated enough to drop the price $200k?

In past cycles, the appreciating markets have been followed by some drop in values.  

In other news I going to have another conversation with the owner about the price to see if we can drop this down a bit more for a wee bit of extra coverage so we will see how this goes.