What constitutes a reasonable offer?
• For a written appointment or admission offer to a patient to be deemed reasonable, the patient is to be offered an appointment or admission date with a minimum of three weeks notice. • In addition to the 3 weeks notice, for a verbal appointment or admission offer to a patient to be deemed reasonable, the patient is to be offered: • for inpatient admission – a minimum of two admission dates • for an outpatient appointment – an appointment on a minimum of two different dates.
In order to make good decisions about local real estate, you have to know what to expect from our local market. In many ways, it’s easier to take what you hear from the national news and apply it directly to our area. Unfortunately, that usually results in perplexed buyers and frustrated sellers. I have met many buyers recently who are determined to put in very low offers because that’s what the national news tells them will work. These buyers have the unrealistic expectation that all sellers will take these offers just to “unload” a house. Most of these buyers extend their house-hunting time by several weeks or even months because the offers they present are rejected by sellers who are holding out for established market value. Sellers, on the other hand, are hearing about the record number of houses for sale, about foreclosures and about how this is a terrible time to sell a house. While it is true that the Knoxville area has an overabundance of listings and therefore more competition
