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CONFESSION #0022 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
My seller called me in a complete panic at 9 AM on a Tuesday because a neighbor told her she priced the house too low. This was after she'd rejected my initial pricing recommendation as "too aggressive" and insisted we list $40K under what I suggested. Now suddenly I'm the villain. She demanded we raise the price immediately, even though we'd been on market for six days and had three showings scheduled that afternoon. I tried to explain that we already had solid interest and changing the price now would look chaotic. She started crying. Then she got angry. Then she accused me of "not believing in her home." Ma'am, I believe in your home. I believe in it so much that I told you to price it higher in the first place. We kept the price. She called me four more times that day. We got two offers by Thursday, one over asking. She never acknowledged that I was right. Just asked if I thought she should have priced it even higher. I need a vacation.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE VINDICATION WITHOUT RECEIPT OF APOLOGY
This Court has reviewed the evidence and finds the defendant GUILTY of being catastrophically correct while receiving zero credit, a crime this bench sees far too often in the real estate profession. The seller in question committed what we in the legal community call "neighbor-induced price hysteria," a condition where a person who has never sold a home becomes an overnight pricing expert after one conversation over a garbage can. This Court notes with EXTREME JUDICIAL IRRITATION that the agent's original recommendation was rejected as "too aggressive" only to have the seller later demand aggression like a person who refuses an umbrella then blames you for the rain. The audacity of asking "should I have priced it even higher" after ignoring professional counsel is the kind of behavior that makes Judge Escrow want to retire to a small island where no one has ever heard of a comparative market analysis. The defendant is sentenced to one vacation, immediately, and the seller is sentenced to sending a fruit basket she will never send. This Court is adjourned because I need to go sit in my chambers and stare at a wall.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Cassandra Complex Confirmed

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