Because you can only sell the house once. So given an appropriate asking price, the first acceptable offer is as good as the next 10. (If your realtor is any go

Because you can only sell the house once. So given an appropriate asking price, the first acceptable offer is as good as the next 10. (If your realtor is any good, the price will be close to the true market value anyway, or priced appropriately considering trade-offs, like closing quickly.) If you can get that offer without the hassle of showing the house to a thousand strangers, and having random people stopping and peeping through your window, then why not? Another common occurrence is accepting an offer below certain known loan limits. If you know you want to get approx the local limit for a jumbo loan, then accepting a price slightly over that limit comes at the cost of fewer potential buyers, or offers that have to back out because they couldn't get financing approved. So the rational choice might be accepting the lower offer, instead of slightly higher with more hassle/risk.