More Than Just Choosing a Price

You’ve found a home you love and you’re ready to make an offer. This is where having an experienced real estate agent representing you becomes especially important.

An offer is much more than the price you’re willing to pay. Financing, earnest money, inspections, appraisal considerations, closing costs, contingencies and timing can all affect the strength of your offer and the protections you have as a buyer.

At the Moving Memphis Group at Emmett Baird Realty, we’ll help you understand your options and develop an offer strategy based on the property, current market conditions and your individual circumstances.

What Is the Home Worth?

Before deciding what to offer, we’ll help you evaluate the property.

We’ll look at available comparable sales, current competition, how long the property has been on the market, recent price changes and other information that may help us understand its market position.

The listing price is what the seller is asking.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s what the home is worth.

Our job is to give you the information and professional guidance you need to decide what you’re comfortable offering.

Building a Strong Offer

Price is important, but it’s only one component of an offer.

Depending on the property and your situation, we’ll discuss factors such as:

• Purchase price
• Financing
• Earnest money
• Inspection terms
• Appraisal considerations
• Seller-paid closing costs or concessions
• Closing date
• Possession
• Personal property
• Contingencies
• Other terms that may affect the strength of your offer

In a competitive situation, we’ll also discuss ways to make your offer attractive to the seller while carefully considering the risks associated with each decision.

The strongest offer isn’t necessarily the highest offer.

Protecting Your Interests

Our goal isn’t simply to get an offer accepted.

We also want you to understand the protections you’re including—or potentially giving up—when structuring your offer.

For example, changing inspection, appraisal or financing terms may make an offer more attractive in certain situations, but those decisions can also create additional risk for you.

We’ll explain your options so you can decide what level of risk you’re comfortable accepting.

What Happens After We Submit the Offer?

Once your offer is submitted, the seller may:

• Accept it
• Reject it
• Make a counteroffer

If the seller counters, we’ll review the proposed changes with you and discuss your options.

We’ll communicate and negotiate with the listing agent on your behalf while keeping you informed throughout the process.

You make the decisions. We provide the information, strategy and negotiation experience to help you make them confidently.

Multiple-Offer Situations

When several buyers want the same property, strategy becomes particularly important.

We’ll gather as much information as reasonably available about the situation and help you determine how aggressively—or conservatively—you want to compete.

There isn’t one strategy that’s right for every buyer or every property.

We’ll help you balance your desire to purchase the home with the financial and contractual risks involved.

Making an Offer With VA Financing

The Moving Memphis Group has extensive experience helping Veterans, active-duty service members and military families purchase homes using VA financing.

A VA offer can be a strong offer.

We understand the considerations that can accompany VA-financed purchases and can help structure and present your offer while working with your VA lender.

Our experience includes VA appraisals, Minimum Property Requirements (MPRs), seller concerns about VA financing, VA assumptions and other aspects of VA transactions.

We also regularly assist military families relocating to the Memphis area, including those making PCS moves to NSA Mid-South in Millington.

Experienced Representation Matters

Led by Tracie Benetz, a full-time Tennessee REALTOR® since 2013 with more than $187 million in career real estate sales, the Moving Memphis Group has helped hundreds of clients navigate real estate transactions throughout Memphis and the Mid-South.

When you find the home you want, we’ll help you understand the market, evaluate the property, develop your offer strategy and negotiate on your behalf.

And hopefully, we’ll get to make one of our favorite phone calls:

“Your offer was accepted!”

Moving Memphis Group at Emmett Baird Realty
Service You Deserve – People You Trust.

Contact us to start your Memphis-area home search.