Will sellers be offended by these questions?

Professional ones are relieved: informed buyers close cleaner and faster. The offended response is itself the answer you came for.

Should I really ask what the seller earns?

Yes, calmly and without accusation. Incentive transparency predicts behaviour better than any brochure adjective, and desks with nothing to hide answer easily.

What if I get good answers but still feel rushed?

Trust the feeling and invoke the one-week rule. Good answers plus manufactured urgency is still manufactured urgency; a clean offer will still be clean next Thursday.

Process

Nine questions to ask any seller

The ABCD administrative building at the heart of Dholera Activation Area — The ABCD building, Dholera's administrative heart · Source: DSIRDA / DICDL (dholera.gujarat.gov.in)

Copy-paste these nine: 1. What is the GUJRERA number, and can you search it with me live? 2. Which TP scheme, and what is my final plot number? 3. Show me the N.A. order or sanction proof. 4. What village and survey number, in writing? 5. What is the all-in cost to registration, itemised, on letterhead? 6. Does the marketing layout match the filed layout exactly? 7. Who is the registered promoter, and is my agreement with them? 8. What are the exit, transfer and default terms if I pay in instalments? 9. What exactly do you earn on this sale? Professionals answer all nine calmly. Count the deflections.

An informed question is cheaper than any discount and worth more than most. These nine are engineered so that every red flag on our list gets touched at least once, in language a first meeting can carry. Send them by WhatsApp before the meeting and watch the response quality; it is your first data point.

Why each question earns its place

Q1 exposes registration reality. The live-search request is the tell: paper tigers negotiate around it. Q2 and Q3 expose legality. TP scheme, final plot and N.A. proof are the difference between land and licensed hope. Q4 exposes geography. A written survey number can be positioned against the SIR boundary in minutes, ending the inside-outside game. Q5 exposes the annexure. All-in on letterhead converts future surprises into present information. Q6 exposes elastic layouts. Filed versus marketed differences are undeclared disclosures. Q7 exposes the identity chain. Your money must trace to the registered promoter, not a marketing shell. Q8 exposes the instalment trap doors. Exit, transfer and default clauses read before signing cost nothing; after, plenty. Q9 exposes incentive. Any seller offended by a fee question is telling you the fee matters more than the relationship. We answer our own Q9 in public.

Scoring the answers

Nine written, verifiable answers: proceed to formal verification with confidence. Six to eight, with the misses on Q5 or Q8: negotiate the paperwork before anything else. Failures on Q1 through Q4: thank them for the chai. The questions are free; what they filter is not.

Nine questions to ask any seller

Why each question earns its place

Scoring the answers

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