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Dissecting the Regional Sales Contract--Part II
Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 12:35pm. 2480 Views, 0 Comments.
This is a continuation from What You Need to Know--the Regional Sales Contract for Northern Virginia Real Estate.
My understanding is that the sales contract used to comprise all of 2 pages; now the contract is usually 23+ pages. Got to love it! ![]()
6. Paragraph 10B covers the appraisal contingency in the contract. A few years ago this was often crossed out to make contracts more appealing to Sellers when competing against 3-18 other contracts. Yes I came across 18 offers once back in 2004. It was nutz!

These days contracts are just about always contingent on the appraisals. I've had about 4 appraisals come back low this year creating a bit of drama in the process. Often appraisals are not accurate and a 2nd appraisal gives a bigger picture. …
What You Need to Know--Regional Sales Contract for Northern Virginia Real Estate
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 1:17pm. 4803 Views, 3 Comments.
One of the most uncomfortable parts of purchasing a home is signing the Northern Virginia real estate regional sales contract. Allow me to fix that....
Let's go through the contract and quickly cover the parts that matter most to you in advance so you it doesn't feel like a surreal and dangerous event when it comes time to sign on the dotted line so to speak when me make our aggressive offer on your preferred home.
Northern Virginia Regional Sales Contract for Arlington Real Estate, Fairfax, McLean, etc.
First, before we dissect the Virginia regional sales contract and its ancillary forms--perhaps to be saved for a 2nd post--I want to make 2 important points: there is a profound difference between the paper contract and the real world…How to Win Against Multiple Offers
Thursday, February 15th, 2007 at 3:13pm. 2841 Views, 0 Comments.
Those of you considering buying a home in a competitive market (sellers’ market) know or may have heard how brutal the process can be. In certain markets a buyer can find himself competing against 3-18 other offers for almost any listing that he write on with many of the offers being similar in terms of price. However there are steps you can take to position yourself well to win a bidding war. And the discipline and thoroughness to do so is well worth the effort given the weeks and months of extra labor involved for you and the selling agent (buyer’s agent) that would come if you just wrote standard offers on listings you found appealing.
Before I list the variables to manipulate to your advantage one thing is certain. You need a selling agent…
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