Pick a published listing on the Home Market and Archie prepares you to negotiate with the government's own numbers: flood zone from FEMA's maps, climate costs from NOAA records, crime in honest FBI-data context, current mortgage math from the official weekly rate survey — every fact cited, unknowns admitted honestly, and a suggested offer plan to bring to your realtor. Educational, not an appraisal — every approved member can run a report free.
Negotiation prep starts from a published listing on the Archie home market. Archie gathers verifiable public facts about the home and its situation, and every fact in the report carries a live citation to a public source — so you, your agent, or your lender can open the link and read the original.
The facts come from named government sources: the home's flood zone from FEMA's own flood maps; the local climate picture — heat, cold, storms, and what they mean for utility bills — from NOAA climate records; crime placed in honest context using the FBI's public crime data, compared against the state rather than turned into an invented safety score; current mortgage math from the official weekly mortgage-rate survey; the area's home-price direction from the federal house-price index; property-tax and sale-history facts from county records; and environmental checks covering EPA-listed contamination sites nearby and the area's radon picture from EPA and CDC data.
Beyond the facts, the report coaches the deal itself: a read on how fast the local market is moving, what the listing's own history suggests about the seller's position, a counter-offer playbook, and the trade levers — timing, inspections, contingencies — that can matter more than another price cut.
Honesty is structural: when the public record is silent on something, the report says "unknown" instead of inventing an answer. Older public figures are labeled with their dates instead of being passed off as current, and if there is not enough verifiable information to reason from, Archie says so plainly rather than producing a confident-sounding report from thin air.
From the cited facts, the report builds a reasoned value opinion and a suggested offer plan — an educational starting point, not an appraisal and not advice. It is written to be brought to your realtor, who makes the actual calls with you.
Every approved Archie member can run a negotiation report for free. The tool exists to make you a prepared client — the kind that helps a realtor close a good deal — because Archie brings work to realtors, never away from them.