If the agents marketing introduced you to seller, and the seller cannot get out of The listing agreement, then the seller may be viable for the commission regardless.Great deal never work going through the agent first, so get the seller to agree, and then have the seller negotiate with the agent as far as a reduced commission or just a fee to reimburse them for marketing.

If you are coming out of pocket every month you could possibly demonstrate a hardship to the lender and get your mortgage interest rate reduced for less of a monthly payment.If you are flush with cash and have great credit then really your stuck as a rental until the value recovers.No legal advice.

In a very bad scenario, the structure is damaged, the land value is reduced (I heard that happened after one of the previous earthquakes here before) and there is still a mortgage payment every month with no rental income.

I also haven't seen sellers reduce the price.

We've currently reduced it to 2375$ after we havent had much luck.We've had maybe 10 people interested in the past 2 months that connect by email and never return any emails and 3 showings.

I'm pretty sure the smell (and maybe the obvious termite damage) led to the reduced sale price.After closing, my wife went down to kick off the rehab on the house.

That money has to come from somewhere, so I reduce my offer price and let the seller cover some of that cost.When analyzing a purchase, I also include a monthly allowance in my own pro-forma to cover maintenance and upkeep.  

This will reduce your applicant pool from 2,400 to 24.)14.Odesk suggests you just advertise the job and ask for “bids”.

One SFR through a realtor, and one SFR with a FSBO.My question is, can I close both of these at the same time to reduce closing costs, or am I going to have to pay twice?

Selling as is you simply reduce the asking price by how much the repairs will be, is that right?