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CONFESSION #0080 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Friday, May 30, 2025
My seller called me in a panic because a neighbor told her the house across the street sold for $50k more than we listed hers. What she failed to mention was that house has an extra bedroom, a renovated kitchen, and doesn't back up to a busy road. I spent forty-five minutes explaining comps for the hundredth time. She interrupted me to say maybe we should "just wait for the market to improve." Ma'am, we've been on market for six days. SIX. We have two showings scheduled for tomorrow. She then suggested I wasn't "marketing aggressively enough" because she hadn't seen the listing on her cousin's Facebook feed yet. I calmly explained that's not how targeted advertising works. She asked if we could raise the price by $30k "just to see what happens." I said no. She said she needed to "think about our partnership." I'm now stress-eating leftover staging cookies in my car while she texts me Redfin screenshots of completely irrelevant properties in other zip codes as "evidence" I priced her wrong.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF UNAUTHORIZED COOKIE CONSUMPTION WHILE UNDER COMPARATIVE MARKET DURESS
This Court has reviewed the evidence and finds the defendant GUILTY of maintaining composure under conditions that would break lesser agents. The accused endured forty-five minutes of comparative market analysis with a woman who believes Facebook cousin visibility is a KPI, and yet somehow did NOT raise the price by $30k just to see what happens. This Court sees you in that car. This Court VALIDATES those staging cookies. The neighbor who started this chaos by running their mouth about sale prices should be sentenced to explain adjustments for busy road proximity to every buyer who asks why they hear trucks at 6 AM. Furthermore, any seller who threatens to reconsider a partnership after SIX DAYS on market shall be required to attend a mandatory seminar called What Is Time And How Does It Work. Judge Escrow once ate an entire tray of open house brownies after a client sent him a TikTok as a counteroffer. We do what we must.
Justified Stress Pastry
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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