Five episodes for the home buyer or seller about to enter negotiations against a professional agent who's done a thousand of these. Why the asymmetry of experience matters more than most buyers realise (the agent has structural advantages you can offset with preparation), the negotiation moves that actually work in residential property contexts, and the moves that look smart but signal weakness. Topics: the opening offer that sets the negotiation tone, the inspection negotiation that often matters more than the headline price, and the silence-as-leverage move most buyers don't deploy.

The book on residential property negotiation as the structured discipline it actually is. Covers the structural moves: the preparation that has to happen before any offer (market data, comparable sales, the seller's actual situation), the opening offer design that opens room for negotiation without insulting, the inspection-negotiation phase that often matters more than the headline price, the contingency design that protects the buyer without killing the deal, and the closing-stage moves. Built for the buyer or seller about to negotiate the largest transaction of their life.

The structured protocol for the post-inspection negotiation phase — the moment most buyers leave the most money on the table because they don't know how to use the inspection report. Walks through the inspection-finding categorisation (cosmetic versus structural versus deal-breaker), the prioritisation framework (which findings to negotiate hard, which to let go), the language patterns that don't escalate, and the credit-versus-repair decision (almost always credit). Run after every inspection. Most buyers walk away with $5K-$50K more than they would have without the structured approach.

The detailed guide to the opening offer — the move that frames the entire negotiation that follows. Covers the comparable-sales research that justifies the offer (so it doesn't read as random), the offer-letter structure that makes the seller take you seriously, the opening-price calibration that opens room without insulting, the contingency design that protects you without making the offer non-competitive, and the timing strategy that signals seriousness. Built for the buyer who's about to make an offer and ready to do it deliberately.

Thirteen psychological tactics that real estate agents use routinely — most of them deployed against buyers who don't know they're being deployed. The 'multiple offers' framing that may or may not be real. The artificial urgency around deadlines. The 'the seller is firm' line that rarely is. The friend-of-the-deal framing that makes the buyer feel they've earned something they haven't. Each gets a one-paragraph explanation and the structural counter-move. Read in fifteen minutes. Most buyers recognise at least four they've encountered.

Eight email lessons that walk through the negotiation process from pre-offer preparation to post-close follow-through. Sessions one through three install the preparation framework (market data, seller research, financing alignment). Sessions four through six work the offer, counter-offer, and inspection negotiation phases. Sessions seven and eight handle the closing-stage moves and the post-close follow-through that most buyers neglect. Built for the buyer or seller about to enter negotiations and ready to do them deliberately.

Working prompts for the AI-assisted parts of property negotiation: the comparable-sales analyser (paste recent sales data, get the structural read on where your offer should sit), the offer-letter drafter, the counter-offer response strategist, the inspection-finding prioritiser. Each prompt comes with input/output format. Tested across Claude and ChatGPT. The value is in turning preparation work that would take a buyer's agent hours into something a self-directed buyer can do in thirty minutes.