How To Write A Great Offer Letter To Get Your Dream Home - Page 14

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Dealing with investors

All of the advice about letter writing can be flipped on its head if the seller is an investor, and not someone who actually inhabited the home. “You can’t pull at an investor’s heart strings as easily as you can pull at a regular seller’s heartstrings,” says Head. But she does have a story of recently – in this pandemic even – helping one client win over an investor, even when he didn’t have as much money to give as the investor hoped for. Head was representing a police officer, during the pandemic. She wrote a letter on his behalf, that went something like, “Dear seller, I’d like to introduce you to buyer. He’s a first responder with the police department and he is making it possible for us to stay at home and be safe and well. He’s looked at your home, and in preparation to start his family, he has decided that it is the perfect home.”