In a past blog post I wrote that in 15 years of real estate I have had less than a dozen offers that I have had my Sellers accept as written. There is always something to counter offer on a Buyer’s offer.
Everyone thinks that price is the only thing to counter but no contract is perfect and there might be some mistakes that need to be corrected. There might be escrow and title companies that are preferred to be used by the Seller or agent. The length of escrow sometimes need to be adjusted. Maybe the Sellers want to stay in the house a few days after escrow closes in order to finish moving. Whatever the case might be, put it in writing in the counter offer.
If you, as the Seller, are lucky enough to have multiple offers, you can make different counter offers to the offers. The counter offers do not have to be the same to all the Buyers. The Seller has the choice to choose the offer that they want to accept.
