HUD rejects offer but tells me what they will take - is this new?

[Mike V.]

I am bidding on my 3rd HUD home and this time when I was rejected they followed up not with a counter offer but with a statement of what they would take if I wanted to bid again. Is this a new development or have they been doing this all along and I never noticed?

[Desiree Frazier]

I recently went to a class given by HUD and they said that they are now sending back their "bottom line" when they reject an offer.