I submitted an offer for my buyers last week that was already at the top of their budget. Reasonable offer, good terms, quick close. The listing agent calls me back and says the sellers are "offended" and won't even counter. Fine, whatever, it happens. Two weeks later, same listing agent sends me a price reduction alert. They dropped it fifteen grand below what my clients offered. So I call her up, resubmit the same offer, thinking surely now we're in business. She calls back and says the sellers are still offended. By the SAME offer that's now ABOVE asking price. I asked her to explain the math. She couldn't. She just kept saying they "didn't like the energy" of my buyers' offer the first time and don't want to work with them. The energy. Of a purchase agreement. A stack of papers with numbers on it. The house is still sitting there sixty days later. My buyers found something else and closed two weeks ago. But every time I drive past that listing sign, I whisper "how's that energy working out for you" like the petty professional I've become.