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CONFESSION #0125 — LOWBALL OFFER
Monday, July 14, 2025
I received an offer last week that was so low I genuinely thought it was a typo. We're listed at $425,000 and these people came in at $289,000. Not $389,000. Two hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars. I called the buyer's agent to confirm, and she sounded exhausted when she said yes, that's correct, her clients believe they're being "strategic." Strategic. That's the word she used. I had to present this to my sellers with a straight face while they stared at me like I'd personally insulted their home. The best part? The offer came with a request for the sellers to pay closing costs AND leave all the furniture. The couch they bought last year. The dining set. Everything. When we countered at full asking price because honestly what else do you do, the buyers responded that they were "offended by our unwillingness to negotiate." I'm currently on my second glass of wine and it's a Tuesday. The house is now under contract with different buyers who offered $418,000 like normal human beings.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF SURVIVING STRATEGIC WARFARE FROM BUYERS WHO LEARNED NEGOTIATION FROM A HOSTAGE MANUAL
This Court has seen lowball offers before, but $289,000 on a $425,000 listing is not an offer, it is a DECLARATION OF WAR wrapped in a contract and delivered by a buyer's agent who has clearly lost the will to live. The audacity to request all furniture as if your sellers were simply vacating a fully-staged Airbnb they no longer wished to operate is the kind of strategic thinking that gets people uninvited from Thanksgiving. Judge Escrow III must pause to acknowledge the buyer's agent, that exhausted woman who had to dial your number knowing full well what sounds would come out of her mouth, she is the true victim here and this Court hopes she has found peace. That these feral negotiators had the TEMERITY to claim offense at a full-price counter after essentially asking your sellers to pay them to take their home is a level of delusion typically reserved for people who believe timeshares are investments. The Tuesday wine is not only justified, it is COURT-ORDERED. This Court is adjourning early because Judge Escrow III needs to lie down in a dark room and contemplate the future of the housing market.
Strategic Delusion Syndrome
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