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When you're negotiating the price of a rental property, the first price you land on isn't necessarily the price you're going to have to close the property with. When you make your initial offer price, that is the price based on the information you have at that time. After you perform more due diligence like your general home inspection you're going to get more information that you can use to negotiate an even better price with the seller based upon the new information you've discovered.