Usually, companies have a proce point already, so negotiate implies they either lower their price or give something extra of value. 

All of them who have gone on to do more and bigger deals have started our with a real estate trainer/coach.

This implies your $50 increase is too low.  

Quote from @Rehj Hoeffner: Are you implying we are "screwing tenants to the wall" by charging fair market rates?

The sunshine tax implies many people are choosing to live in higher occupancy situations, garages, cars on property, etc.    

nationally, in 35 years there has only been one crash or collapse not a few - S&P CS index, FHHA index, NAR index, Fed indexes, and a bunch of others. that crash or collapse was the Great Recession. there have been many normal business cycle corrections. asset class corrections get rid of over leveraged investment. i never suggested a crash or collapse in the context of the Great Recession that implies many more problems and failures in house pricing and lending. that is not a correction. i suggested a bear market could mean a significant devaluation in home prices. home price devaluation is not a collapse when there it not material or significant default and foreclosure.assuming real estate assets are income producing, then there would be no need or reason to dispose of those assets. i would not advocate to my clients to sell of portfolio assets with a looming recession.what moron idiot owner would sell for less than FMV?

Construction defects are common and implied warranties are the law of the land.

Would that imply that this bank would have to list the property for auction?

The original poster asked if he was looking at a FSBO, implying that he was looking, and did not yet have an agent.

Which implies to me that this big federal level entity -- for whatever it's worth -- seems to think that buying, maintaining, and owning a rental property is A-OK.But, then again, sometimes the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.