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CONFESSION #0119 — LOWBALL OFFER
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
I showed the same house eleven times to a couple who kept saying they "needed to feel the energy" before making a decision. Eleven visits. They meditated in the living room twice. They brought a friend who does tarot readings. Finally, after two months of this spiritual real estate journey, they announced they were ready to make an offer. I was thrilled. Relieved. Ready to finally get paid for my patience.
Their offer? $87,000 under asking on a $425,000 home that had multiple showings and was priced competitively for the neighborhood. When I gently suggested this might not be well-received, they told me the tarot cards indicated the sellers were "desperate" and would accept anything. The cards also apparently said mercury was in retrograde, which meant it was a buyer's market.
I submitted it because that's my job. The listing agent called me laughing so hard she could barely breathe. The sellers countered at full price just to make a point. My buyers were genuinely shocked and asked if we could negotiate with crystals present next time.
I need a vacation.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ENABLING METAPHYSICAL MALPRACTICE IN A FIDUCIARY CAPACITY
This Court has witnessed many indignities but ELEVEN SHOWINGS while clients performed SÉANCES in the breakfast nook tests the very foundations of jurisprudence. The confession reveals an agent who stood silently as tarot cards were consulted for market analysis, as if the Three of Pentacles has EVER accurately predicted comparable sales data in a mid-range suburban market. Judge Escrow himself once consulted a Magic 8-Ball regarding a property dispute and even THAT plastic oracle had the decency to say "Ask Again Later" rather than recommend an offer twenty percent below asking during a competitive listing period. The defendant submitted this cosmically insulting lowball because "that's my job," a defense this Court finds both technically accurate and spiritually devastating. When the listing agent called laughing so hard she could barely breathe, that laughter echoed through the halls of every MLS database in the nation. The request to "negotiate with crystals present" suggests these buyers believe amethyst has persuasive authority over contract terms, and the truly damning confession is that the defendant did not immediately flee the jurisdiction. This Court sentences the agent to mandatory vacation and forbids all future clients from bringing friends who "do readings" unless those readings involve ACTUAL COMPS.
Chakra-Blocked Commission
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