Ask the seller if he is willing to take less of a down payment, you ever know if you don't ask. 

Or seller didn't remove his post after it was sold?

And two big packages from the same seller last year for $2,579,000 that appraised for $3,286,400... getting those were all about gaining some inside information and then knowing ways to exploit it. 

I've had better experience with "fair market" transactions listed by motivated individuals.My advice is to have your agent to set up a search for vacant houses with key words like 'fixer-upper', 'probate', etc.

The idea would be sellers are eager to get rid of the property and, therefore, more willing to take a lower price.- Search Craigslist for FSBO's?

So I sent the seller an email on it.

You want your property to be viewed by the largest buyer pool and although saving 6% in commission sounds great you would lose a large portion of motivated buyers because your property is not on their agent's radar.

I have a property under contract and the seller is pushing back on some stuff. 

Thanks again for everyones input.You've already gotten better input than I could give It will be interesting to see how the seller reacts.

The asking price for the property is $135,000 and it is possible to make purchase price $140k and with VA funding fee rolled into the mortgage, it'll be over $144k.However, I don't want to overpay for the property and submitted an offer of $125k with seller paying all closing costs up to $5k.