I had a buyer tell me their budget was $400K, so I spent three weekends showing them homes in that range. After the twelfth showing, they casually mentioned they'd actually been pre-approved for $650K but "wanted to see what was out there" in the lower price point first. When I asked why they didn't mention this sooner, they said they "didn't want to feel pressured." Pressured by whom? Me? The person who just burned 40 hours of my life showing you homes you were never going to buy? They then asked if I could show them everything in the new range "by this weekend" because they just found out the wife's mother was moving in and they needed more space urgently. The same mother-in-law situation that apparently existed the entire time they were wasting my gas money looking at three-bedroom ranches. I smiled, said "absolutely," and then screamed into a throw pillow in my car for a solid two minutes before driving home.