I had a buyer and seller who agreed on everything. Price, closing date, repairs, all of it. We were two weeks from closing and I was already mentally spending my commission. Then the buyer's agent calls me and says her client wants to back out because during the final walkthrough, she noticed the sellers had removed a decorative wreath from the front door. A wreath. That was never in the contract. That the sellers owned. That they bought at Target three years ago. The buyer said it "changed the whole energy of the home" and she no longer felt "welcomed by the space." I spent forty-five minutes on the phone explaining that wreaths are personal property. Her agent spent another hour. The seller offered to BUY HER A NEW WREATH. Didn't matter. She walked away and forfeited her earnest money over a $24 circle of fake eucalyptus. I've been in this business nine years and I still can't tell this story without my eye twitching. The sellers relisted, sold it in a week, and the new buyers didn't even use the front door.