This article was previously published in the Toronto Sun
Imagine you were negotiating the purchase of a new house. You’d make an offer, the house owner would counter and back and forth you would go. Further imagine that you’d already given notice to your landlord that you were moving out of your apartment and needed to be out by the end of the month. In that scenario, you might be inclined to pay a bit more to get the house and move in right away. You don’t have time to quibble over the nickels and dimes – time is money.
