During the inspections (home, pest, septic, electric) several issues came up and I am curious for everyone's input on what my counter offer should be.

A sharp seller's agent will advise a counter offer at that maximum price if that's a number they want.Surprisingly, I have had seller's agents tell me that they will not accept an escalation clause, but that's been rare in my experience.

My offer is much lower than what he wanted for the property, and I expect a counter offer to my offer, but I view it as an amazing BRRRR strategy.

Found this deal on a 3rd party listing (Redfin) and did straight forward negotiations (offer, counter offer, took as-is).

Yes the offer is a seller finance and they have agreed to seller financing I’m waiting for a counter offer!

Welllll, don't know about NY, but if you make a counter-offer, you've given them an opportunity not to accept and possibly get out of the deal.People change their minds mid-stream all the time, which is why you don't want to give them an out.

Offer included incremental counter-offers of $500 over a other offers, up to $5,000 over my asking price.

Get the offer out there and see where it goes, the worst they can say is no, with no counter offer.

He responded “I’m not interested in your counter offer, cancel escrow and refund all deposits immediately”.

Beyond that, the sky is the limit, you can even make up your own terms and present them or make counter-offers to their initial offers, negotiate.Because there are not nearly as many laws around hard money lending as compared to conventional mortgages it makes it so that basically everything is up for negotiation.