{"id":415,"date":"2006-09-26T06:47:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2006-09-26T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T13:47:09","slug":"blogoff-post-38-strategy-timing-is-everything-in-making-home-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/415\/blogoff-post-38-strategy-timing-is-everything-in-making-home-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #38: Strategy, timing is everything in making home offer . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorites from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/AZRep.php?Gfile=AZRepublic\/117.php\" target=\"_blank\">my <i>Arizona Republic<\/i> column<\/a>, a strategy for making an offer on a home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the absolute strategic best time to write a purchase offer? I think it&#8217;s early in the day on the first Tuesday of the month.<\/p>\n<p>We want the first of the month because the seller just wrote another mortgage check and wants to know when the pain is going to stop. We want Tuesday morning because, by then, the seller will know that no offer is coming in from the weekend&#8217;s showings. We are catching the sellers at the exact moment their resistance is at its weakest.<\/p>\n<p>Expressed this baldly, this may sound cold &#8211; but this is strategy, not passion. You can&#8217;t do this at all unless you can abide <i>not <\/i>getting the home.<\/p>\n<p>But by making the right offer at the right time, you can save yourself thousands of dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact is, people are almost always going to make their offer at the worst possible time &#8212; Friday or Saturday afternoon &#8212; but this is the right way of getting the job done.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona\" rel=\"tag\">arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona real estate\" rel=\"tag\">arizona real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix real estate\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorites from my Arizona Republic column, a strategy for making an offer on a home: What is the absolute strategic best time to write a purchase offer? I think it&#8217;s early in the day on the first Tuesday of the month. We want the first of the month because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":983,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/983\/a-line-in-the-sand-gaius-popillius-laenas-and-getting-the-real-estate-transaction-closed-against-all-opposition\/","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":0},"title":"A line in the sand: Gaius Popillius Laenas and getting the real estate transaction closed against all opposition . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Someday soon I'll write a full-blown Realty Reality post about this transaction. I've written about it several times already, but my client is quite right in telling me, \"This should be Chapter 14 in your book!\" What am I talking about? It's a home that finally closed this week --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18684,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18684\/this-realtor-found-his-buyer-a-property-with-no-multiple-offers\/","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":1},"title":"This Realtor found his buyer a property with no multiple offers","author":"Brian Brady","date":"April 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you representing buyers right now? It's hard...REALLY hard right now. 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The idea of buyer brokerage is just being introduced there, and our interlocutor is understandably mystified:I am a bit confused, to say the very least. If I write up a listing contract with a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ask the Broker&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ask the Broker","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/ask-the-broker\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":948,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/948\/recent-refinancing-can-make-selling-a-house-costly\/","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":3},"title":"Recent refinancing can make selling a house costly","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in this morning's Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0Recent refinancing can make selling a house costly A buyer e-mailed me a question about a house she might be interested in. At first glance, it looked promising: A newer west-side home in good condition. The price wasn't awful, maybe\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1011,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1011\/ask-the-broker-what-do-we-do-if-we-cant-find-the-listing-agent\/","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":4},"title":"Ask The Broker &#8211; What Do We Do If We Can&#8217;t Find The Listing Agent?","author":"Doug Quance","date":"February 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We (my fiance and I) put in an offer on a condo priced way below market, and the seller would like to take us up on the offer. However his agent is absent, disappeared w\/o a trace. The seller is bound by contract to his listing agent. 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