30-40 Margaret Ave | 3 fl townhouses | Planned

[tomh009]

I wouldn't call it rare either. I know a few other people that bought Momentum units, and we all managed to negotiate stuff like free upgrades, waived assignment fees, etc. Momentum certainly didn't seem to find anything unusual about negotiating over details of the agreement. These weren't on units that had been stuck around unsold or anything either, though I doubt one could get modifications on launch night where there's tons of other buyers.

My guess is that they would not be willing to negotiate on the provisions (or lack thereof) in the contract which allow them to pull the described scam of cancelling the whole deal and then trying again with higher prices. The stuff you describe is just noise around the edges of the deal; I’m sure their budgets and business plans assume that those sorts of changes will happen.

Agreed. Extremely unlikely that you can negotiate a change to the contract language. So it's buyer beware: read the contract carefully, and the same with the declaration, because those are the things that you are buying so you should understand what it is you are getting.

As for negotiating on the price, my impression is that most developers don't want to drop the selling price (because it'll be visible to agents on the MLS) so getting extras for free or fees waived is a much more fruitful approach than trying to actually change the selling price.