I feel a little better after reading your post here and other places on this site. My realtor is a great hard worker, but does not have confidence in short sale acquisitions. The broker promised to work hard with us and has not followed thru with his talk. Therefore, I think my down feelings are with the big name real estate firm and not solely with my agent. The bank came back and my agent wants me to rewrite my offer slightly higher. I found out the banks number is based on their appraisal (as one of your posts indicated). However, that appraiser was told that an interior project on the house, that will not be completed for the sale, was done with a licensed contractor, but I called the city and they do not have a permit on file. Do you think the appraiser would change the value if they knew no permit and thus my offer should not go up? I am open, but don’t want to make a stupid mistake.
