One thing that I recommend when purchasing real estate is to avoid emotional entanglement with the seller. A buyer is better off to remain in a zen like state of 100% non judgement in regards to the purchase process. Why is this important? In this world there are all kinds of people and therefore all kinds of sellers. It helps to imagine a bell curve. You remember the bell curve from high school math don't you. Most people are in the middle of the bell curve. They are easy to get along with. Some people are at either end of the bell curve and are, by degree, less easy to deal with. If the seller of your dream home is one of these people you will be tempted to get emotionally involved. In fact one of the biggest mistakes that realtors make is to transmit a seller's level of difficulty to a buyer. It's our job to make the purchase process as smooth as possible. We have to insulate buyers from the less pleasant parts of the process. After all, buyers buy homes, they don't buy difficult sellers. So when the negotiation is not going as smoothly as you would like, become like Buddha and pass no judgement. You'll end up with the house and by the time you move in you won't even remember what it was that was so upsetting in the first place.