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The art of making lowball offers

By Shawn Peters
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, May 15, 2009

If all goes right and the rules of law and contracts prevail, my wife and I officially will sell our old house Friday, eight excruciating months after having put it on the market. Needless to say, there have been plenty of things along the way that have made me angry, frustrated, peeved, miffed and occasionally livid. An economy that tanked historically two days after our first open house? Yeah, I didn't like that. Buyers who deemed the house "overpriced" despite the fact that it was the lea ...

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