asianautica, my fellow G35 compensator – you are right about sellers finally getting the picture and willing to cave.
In fact during the last great buyer’s market in SD we bought our first house and asked the sellers to agree to a 90-day escrow so that we could save up $3000 of the ~$9000 we needed to close on a 5% down with 3% credit from seller. Does that sound like a strong buyer to you ? They took it because they knew there were no other sucker-buyers around to which to sell their house. An offer, any offer is golden to a desperate seller.