Advertisement
CONFESSION #0100 — LOWBALL OFFER
Thursday, June 19, 2025
I just submitted an offer for my buyers that was $85,000 under asking. I knew it was low. They knew it was low. But they insisted the market was "cooling" because they read one article on Business Insider.
The listing agent called me within twenty minutes. Not to counter. Not to negotiate. Just to laugh. Actually laugh. Then she asked if my buyers had accidentally left off a digit.
The house had twelve offers. TWELVE. It sold for $40,000 over asking.
But here's the beautiful part—my buyers were genuinely shocked. "We thought they'd at least counter," they said. As if the sellers were going to look at their offer, surrounded by eleven better ones, and think "you know what, these people seem nice, let's work with them."
I've started keeping a folder on my desktop called "Offers That Made Me Question My Career." It has seventeen PDFs in it. Every single one came with a buyer saying "just submit it, you never know!"
You're right. I don't know. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself.
Advertisement
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED SUBMISSION OF A JOKE OFFER IN A TWELVE-OFFER FEEDING FRENZY
This Court has seen many crimes against professional dignity, but submitting an $85,000-under-asking offer into a twelve-offer bloodbath because your clients read ONE ARTICLE on Business Insider represents a new category of jurisprudential suffering. The defendant knew. THE DEFENDANT KNEW. And yet, like a person bringing a coupon to an auction, they proceeded anyway. Judge Escrow himself once submitted a lowball offer on a historic property and the listing agent didn't just reject it—she had it framed and hung in her office as a cautionary tale, and frankly that was DESERVED. The folder labeled "Offers That Made Me Question My Career" is not a filing system, it is a cry for help, it is a digital wound, it is SEVENTEEN SEPARATE INSTANCES of professional humiliation organized alphabetically. When the listing agent called not to counter but simply to LAUGH, that laugh echoed through the halls of every MLS system in this great nation. This Court must adjourn immediately as Judge Escrow requires a moment to compose himself after learning that the buyers were "genuinely shocked" they didn't receive a counter.
Business Insider Brain Damage
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
Advertisement