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CONFESSION #0137 — LOWBALL OFFER
Saturday, July 26, 2025
I got a lowball offer last week that was so insulting I genuinely thought it was a typo. We're listed at $425,000, priced competitively based on three recent comps within half a mile. This buyer comes in at $289,000. Not $389,000. Two-eighty-nine. I called the other agent to confirm the number, and she had the audacity to say her clients "really love the house but want to leave room for negotiations." Room for negotiations? That's not room, that's an entire football stadium. I had to present it to my sellers with a straight face while they stared at me like I'd lost my mind. The husband asked if this was some kind of scam. I told him no, just someone who apparently thinks real estate works like haggling at a flea market. The best part? The buyers got offended when we countered at full price. Their agent called me to say they felt "disrespected." I'm still laughing about that one. We sold to someone else three days later for $418,000. Some people really think confidence is a substitute for cash.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED GRAND THEFT BY AUDACITY IN THE FIRST DEGREE
This Court has witnessed many offenses against decency, but rarely has it beheld such WEAPONIZED DELUSION presented as legitimate negotiation. The defendant buyer arrived at a $425,000 property with $289,000 and what can only be described as the confidence of someone who has never been told no by anyone, ever, in their entire pampered existence. Judge Escrow must pause here to collect himself because the AUDACITY of feeling disrespected after offering 68 cents on the dollar is the kind of thing that makes this Court want to retire to a small cabin where numbers cannot hurt him. Room for negotiation? That is not a room, that is a VOID, an abyss, a yawning chasm into which all rational thought has been cast and forgotten. The sellers' husband asking if this was a scam shows he understood what this Court now confirms: it WAS a scam, just one performed by amateurs who confused Zillow surfing with expertise. The subsequent $418,000 sale proves the market has a sense of justice even when buyers do not. This Court must adjourn immediately as its blood pressure medication requires recalibration.
Delusional Dollar Disorder
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