{"id":7669,"date":"2012-01-30T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2012-01-30T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:09:29","slug":"is-the-price-negotiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/is-the-price-negotiable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Price Negotiable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Castle-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Block Castle\" title=\"Block Castle\" width=\"258\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7673\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Castle-Blog.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Castle-Blog-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>Yesterday I hosted an open house at one of our listings. At least 3 of the visitors asked me if the price was negotiable.<\/p>\n<p>My advice to buyers is always: If you&#8217;re a serious buyer and interested in a house, put in an offer. If you don&#8217;t think the house is worth the asking price, offer something lower. You&#8217;ll never know how negotiable the sellers are unless you put in that first offer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the difference between window shopping and buying a house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I hosted an open house at one of our listings. At least 3 of the visitors asked me if the price was negotiable. My advice to buyers is always: If you&#8217;re a serious buyer and interested in a house, put in an offer. If you don&#8217;t think the house is worth the asking price, offer something lower. You&#8217;ll never know how negotiable the sellers are unless you put in that first offer. That&#8217;s the<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/is-the-price-negotiable\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1568],"tags":[3341,4010,3434,3433,2548,2570,2579],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying","tag-bid","tag-buying","tag-flexible","tag-negotiable","tag-negotiating","tag-offer","tag-open-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}