Now the next opening offer rule is a very simple one it’s really easy which is don’t open with a round number.
So do make it simple in the last video I was saying offer them to 60 but actually you shouldn’t offer them to 60.
You should offer them to five seven or to six for a quite like severns and fours actually because nines or sort of an obvious ploy aren’t they ones aren’t worth bothering with.
But if you say I can only afford two hundred fifty seven thousand you wouldn’t go right down to pence.
By the way would be ridiculous to go right down to pence but I can only afford two hundred fifty seven thousand or even two hundred fifty seven thousand four hundred.
Why is that better.
Well if you just offered somebody two thousand two hundred sixty thousand.
It just sounds like you’ve made that number up. But if you go for 2 5 7 it sounds like you’ve really thought about it. Either you very accurately valued that house that really is what the House is actually worth or you scrape together every last coin from your piggy bank and that’s really all you’ve got. So a very precise opening offer is is a good idea and dead easy to do. And the other advantage of doing that is that they won’t attack you back if you do that. So if you quote a price of something and you make it an unusual offer they’re more likely to accept it and just think oh okay it’s obvious you got a reason for that.
And I told somebody about this on a course recently and he said to me since he’s done this since he started quoting unusual prices no one ever questions the price. No one ever tries to negotiate.
Whereas before he would always be haggled down by a certain amount