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CONFESSION #0112 — LOWBALL OFFER
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
I just received an offer on my listing that was so low I thought it was a typo. Nope. The buyer's agent actually called me to "talk through the strategy" behind offering $200,000 under asking on a house that's been on the market for six days and already has two other offers. The strategy, apparently, was that the buyer "really loves the house but has a firm budget." Cool. I also really love a beachfront mansion but my firm budget is $47 and a Costco gift card. I had to present this offer to my sellers with a straight face while they stared at me like I'd personally insulted their grandmother. The best part? The buyer's agent asked if my sellers would consider covering $15,000 in closing costs "to make the numbers work." I'm sorry, the numbers don't work because you're offering what this house was worth in 2019. I wrote back a very professional rejection and then ate an entire sleeve of Oreos in my car before my next showing. This job is slowly destroying my ability to feel surprise.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED LOWBALL FACILITATION AND OREO-BASED COPING IN THE FIRST DEGREE
This Court has witnessed many indignities in its distinguished tenure, but rarely has the bench been subjected to such brazen mathematical delusion. The buyer's agent in question should be remanded to a remedial economics course taught exclusively by angry appraisers. That said, THIS COURT MUST ADDRESS THE CONFESSOR'S CONDUCT. You ate an ENTIRE SLEEVE of Oreos in your vehicle like some kind of feral raccoon in business casual? Judge Escrow has half a mind to hold you in contempt for not offering the Court any. The audacity of requesting $15,000 in closing costs on an offer that already constitutes financial comedy is the real estate equivalent of robbing a bank and asking the teller to validate your parking. Your sellers' grandmother WAS personally insulted, metaphysically speaking. The Court rules that you are guilty of being the unfortunate messenger in a transaction that should never have required a message, and also of destroying evidence (the Oreos) before this Court could examine them. Case dismissed because Judge Escrow suddenly needs to lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.7/10 Costco Card Realty

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