Without going into too much detail: \- Was a regular listing being sold as is. \- Condition was not the greatest (need to redo flooring, water rot on exterior for some siding planks) but nothing too insane or structurally wrong with it (that we've seen yet) \- Threw a low offer (8% lower than their asking price). They say they wont cover any closing, and we say fine, but we're going to go even lower. They accept the offer \- Turns out they're due to be foreclosed in about a month, and seller didn't mention that to even their agent. \- Inspection was delayed due to seller not paying water and the water shutting off before our inspection \- given the situation and the condition of the house, thinking of going even lower (12% below their asking price) after thinking more about the things we need to fix up. \- if they back out now, their official foreclosure is within the month. The seller realistically only has us to "bail" them out of foreclosure. So I feel like we have the upper hand? I don't want to screw them over financially, but we did not expect all this to go down as far as it being a house this close to being foreclosed. And they've been very shady and not communicative with allowing things like the water being off and a court hearing to delay the entire process. The property is in a very nice neighborhood where literally the lowest priced house within it is 18% higher in price than the current accepted offer, and about 23% higher than the new renegotiated price I'm thinking about proposing after we complete inspection. Am I a jerk for wanting to go even lower to fix up some of the things that I felt were medium in importance now that we know we have some leverage? Do we even have leverage if I'm understanding this process correctly?