Home buyer, seller letters
Saturday, May 31, 2008
There's an intriguing, and only slightly tongue in cheek article, in today's New York Times looking at ways in the current housing market to get the property you want at the price you're willing to pay. The technique? A letter to the seller. Such correspondence apparently used to be routine. But nowadays, writes Ron Lieber in the Your Money column, the missive of choice is "less a fuzzy valentine and more like a cold splash of water. It's what you write to accompany a bid that is so far below the listing price that it cries out for explanation." And... Read more →