The Secret of Getting an Offer - Write One to The Buyer!!!

This is one of the best held secrets and underutilized techniques in the real estate industry.  Sellers do not need to wait to receive an offer from a buyer.  How often have you been frustrated by the fact that a dozen or more people came to look at your house over the past month, but no offers were forthcoming?  You need wait no more...

Why not send an offer to the buyer?  What's the worst that can happen?  They could say no, counter your offer or say YES!  You see, most buyers shop with spouses, friends, roommates or partners.  Generally speaking more than one person must decide on which house is to be purchased.  Frequently, one person may like a home more than another person...you may have had this experience yourself when you last shopped for a home.

Sometimes all it takes is an offer from a seller that will help that one buyer to convince the other buyer to start the negotiation process.  Without an offer, the one buyer that may like your home more than the other has nothing to convince his/her co-buyer with.  In practice, this will get many buyers off the fence an into your home far sooner than just passively waiting for an offer.

Also, by generating an offer you will get to hear buyers objections.  It can be frustrating for a seller to not know why buyers avoid making offers.  When a buyer rejects a sellers offer, the seller is usually given a reason.  Sellers can then reposition their home via re-pricing, remodeling or cleaning and staging to make the home more palatable for future buyers. 

Making seller offers is a techniques that can help get your home sold faster.