We got a counter-offer today. The buyer basically wanted to offer $290,000 ($3000 more) for the house, but was asking for $7350 more in repairs to be done before closing. We chatted with Emily and met her for dinner in Salt Lake and she helped us write up a counter offer addendum and letter to the buyer. Emily was just astonished at how many concessions they were asking for, especially since we are already giving them over $25,000 in concessions.

Hopefully the buyer can accept this and we can get this to go through so we don’t have to re-list it. The truth is, even if we wanted to, we just don’t have the cash flow to make any more updates. We took out a title loan on our car just to pay for the deck repair and carpet.

We stopped by the house on the way home and the deck us much stronger now. They basically tore out all the wood at the bottom and replaced it with concrete.

We spent the majority of our day putting in door-knobs, new outlets and switches, curtains, etc. trying to get this house ready to list for sale.