Thanks! I just contacted them to schedule a meeting. This is all an eye-opener. Many things I didn't think about before.Talk to @BuySellBA and @earlyretirement. I hired them a few times now. I hired them a while back when they were ApartmentsBA and they managed my apartment. One of the owners still manages my property and it still rents consistently. I also used them to sell a few properties there in 2017. It is important to understand how everything works. On 2 apartments that I sold they signed the paperwork for me and I just had the buyer wire to my bank in US. Was much easier than buying.
In my case it wasn't the seller trying to squeeze more money. She already signed the written offer and agreed. And then after that the realtor called me to tell me the part about declaring less and being normal. I don't want to use a lower price at all. Even if it is normal here I don't want extra capital gains taxes in the USA. Just seems like a recipe for disaster.A part of me says these sellers are trying to squeeze extra cash from the buyer, who if they don't agree to the lowering the written price hope they can manipulate the buyer to offer extra cash to offset the costs. It's a shitty manipulation tactic, to spring an extra expense on someone after an agreement has been reached, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's how some try to justify it. Imagine such a shady seller trying to convince an unsuspecting buyer, "bc I(seller) am paying more in taxes at full sell price, I want you to cover a portion of that difference."
I've had such contractors here in the US try to pull this scam- after agreeing on installation costs of flooring- at the last minute try to sneak an additional charge for the protective coating.
I told the seller I need to research this more but I will probably just look for a different property. I'm bitter about this because I have been looking for over a month now and the buying process here leaves a lot to be desired! I can't tell you how many no shows I have had on property showings.
I wish they had a website like Redfin here. The websites are not dependable or accurate. Even on the apartment that I made an offer on, the monthly expenses were half of the real price listed on zonaprop. Makes me question other things in the listing.
Are property inspections normal here? My realtor said those don't expect here and no one does any and it's what you see is what you get.