Sellers pay closing costs

You can have the seller pay uo to 3% of your purchase price towards your  Closing costs, On a 200,000 purchase that would be $6.000  no chump change.  When you make an offer using a realtor they should be able to help you.  In a soft market like today there shouldn't be much problem finding a suitable Home with the seller willing to pay closing costs. Also another angle would be to try to get your Real Estate agent to cut his commission, however a good agent that would represent  your best interests to the upmost would probubly not lower their fee unless the seller was offering a commission higher than normal. Because a Real Estate agents cannot pay your closing costs but instead cut his or her commission which would raise the sellers net which in turn opens the door to ask that the sellers pay closing costs.

Dan Bradstreet    Re/Max Agent  Vancouver Washington

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