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DEPARTMENT FOR AGING AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AUXILIARY GRANT PROGRAM NON-SSI CONDITIONAL BENEFITS 02/17 CHAPTER F, PAGE 16 8.3.2. Second Contact— Reasonable Efforts Have Stopped When the worker recontacts Mrs. Darwin on September 19, she states that she had just refused an offer of $6,000 as being too low. Mrs. Darwin says she has no proof that $6,000 was unreasonable; it was her opinion that it was too low. The worker determines that the offer was reasonable ($6,000 is more than two-thirds of $8,000) and that Mrs. Darwin is no longer making reasonable efforts to sell. As of October 1, conditional benefits are no longer payable and the worker issues a notice of planned action on the basis of excess resources. 8.4. Failure to Establish or Continue Reasonable Efforts to Sell Without good cause, failure to meet the criteria outlined above, as applicable, means that the individual is not making reasonable efforts to sell the property and the property becomes a countable resource. His/her countable resources will include the value of the excess property retroactive to the beginning of the conditional benefits period and he/she owes the resultant overpayment. 8.5. Good Cause Good cause exists when circumstances beyond an individual's control prevent his/her taking the required actions to accomplish reasonable efforts to sell. With good cause, failure to meet the criteria above means that the conditional benefits period continues to run its term. 8.5.1. Examples of Good Cause  No Offer to Buy The individual makes good faith efforts to sell excess non-liquid resources throughout the disposal period (or is prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond his/her control) but receives no offer to buy them.  Reliance on an Offer That Does Not Result in a Sale A legitimate or apparently legitimate offer to buy an excess non- liquid resource halts further efforts to sell it for a prolonged period of time, and the prospective buyer subsequently cannot or will not complete the purchase.