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Family owned Gainesville FL real estate agency for residential and commercial real estate since 1911. Serving Gainesville FL, Alachua County, and surrounding areas.
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Coldwell Banker M.M. Parrish Realtors
5830 NW 39th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32606, USA
(352) 335-4999

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Dave K.

Gainesville, FL

Coldwell Banker M.M. Parrish Realtors

Over all this real estate purchase went rather smoothly. if the trust/estate would have been a little more inclined to negotiate it probably would have been smooth sailing. The problem was that there were two sisters and one wanted to capture the full original asking price!

Megan McGriff really did a excellent job with this sale!

The issue was that no one at Coldwell Banker apparently never informed the Seller(estate/trust) that normally in a real estate transaction or any transaction including real property like cars, boats, planes, and houses there are always negotiations involving the sale price($134,000). I made my first offer based on the premise that I was going to us my VA Home Loan Benefit. So I was concerned about the age of the roof so I made an offer that reflected the possible roof replacement plus some other work that was necessary. That offer was rejected by the seller. Then suddenly the Seller had the information that the roof was replaced in 2014! That was a good thing. The second offer was a detailed list which explained exactly what were the issues with the property and my new offer . At this point that offer was also rejected with a comment from the Seller that they would take no less than $133,999.99!! The age of the HVAC system was of major concern; it was 32 years old which basically the end of it's life. Finally after requesting the GRU billing history we finally got to the negotiating process! Things started to look like we might be able to agree on a price. Needless to say the Buyer and the Agent were ecstatic that the ball had finally been moved after two weeks.