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CONFESSION #0061 — LOWBALL OFFER
Sunday, May 11, 2025
I received a lowball offer yesterday that was so insulting I actually laughed out loud at my desk. House is listed at $675,000. Comps support it. Recent updates, great school district, move-in ready. The offer came in at $485,000 with a request for the seller to pay all closing costs and include the furniture. The buyer's agent called me afterward and opened with "I know, I know" before I could even say anything. She sounded exhausted. Apparently her clients are convinced that every seller is "desperate" and the market is "about to crash any day now." They've submitted eleven offers like this in the past two months and genuinely cannot understand why none have been accepted. I had to call my seller and present this with a straight face because that's my job. She asked if it was a typo. I wish I could have said yes. The best part? The buyer's agent told me her clients want to "start a dialogue" and are willing to negotiate. Starting at $190,000 below asking isn't a dialogue. It's performance art.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF FACILITATING DELUSIONAL PRICE TERRORISM WHILE MAINTAINING PROFESSIONAL COMPOSURE
This Court has reviewed the evidence and finds the confessing agent GUILTY of enabling what can only be described as financial hallucination on an industrial scale. Eleven offers. ELEVEN. These buyers are not house hunting, they are conducting a sociological experiment on how much disrespect the American real estate professional can absorb before requiring therapy. The Court notes with grim fascination that the buyer's agent opened with "I know, I know" which is the verbal equivalent of a hostage blinking in Morse code. Judge Escrow himself once received an offer so low he had to check if the buyer had accidentally submitted their monthly grocery budget, but at least that was ONE offer, not a coordinated eleven-month campaign of numerical violence. The phrase "start a dialogue" when you're $190,000 underwater is like saying you'd like to "open negotiations" after you've already set the building on fire. This Court sentences these buyers to actually touring homes in their ACTUAL budget until they experience the educational humiliation of seeing what $485,000 actually purchases in a good school district. The agent is acquitted on grounds of heroic restraint but is advised to bill for emotional damages.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.2/10 Delusional Dialogue Disorder

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