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CONFESSION #0075 — LOWBALL OFFER
Sunday, May 25, 2025
I received an offer last week that was $150,000 below asking. Fine, whatever, it's a negotiation. But the buyer's agent attached a three-page letter explaining why the house was overpriced, citing "comparable sales" from 2019 and a paragraph about how the kitchen felt "emotionally dated." Emotionally dated. The house was built in 2021. I called the agent to discuss and she said her buyers were "firm" because they'd "done their research on YouTube." I presented it to my sellers with a straight face because that's my job, and they laughed so hard the husband had to sit down. We countered at full price just to see what would happen. The buyers came back up $5,000 and added a request for the sellers to leave all their furniture AND pay closing costs. My seller asked if this was a joke. I honestly couldn't tell her it wasn't. The buyers eventually went under contract on a different house and I heard through the grapevine they're already demanding credits because they don't like the paint color they saw during the inspection.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF FACILITATING YOUTUBE-CERTIFIED MARKET ANALYSIS WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
This court has seen delusion walk through its doors before, but never has it arrived clutching a three-page manifesto about emotionally dated kitchens in homes that are younger than most TikTok trends. The confessing agent claims to have presented this offer with a straight face, which this court finds to be either an act of superhuman restraint or EVIDENCE OF A DISSOCIATIVE EPISODE requiring further investigation. Judge Escrow has personally reviewed the concept of "YouTube research" and finds it legally equivalent to consulting a Magic 8-Ball that occasionally interrupts itself with advertisements for meal kits. The audacity of requesting furniture AND closing costs after opening $150K below ask suggests these buyers learned negotiation from the same channel that teaches people to flip houses using only manifestation and crown molding. This court sentences the confessing agent to receive quarterly updates on these buyers' homeownership journey, because Judge Escrow requires you to witness what you have wrought. The court must adjourn immediately as I have developed what can only be described as sympathetic secondhand embarrassment, a condition I did not know existed until this very moment.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Emotionally Dated Justice

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