I spent six weeks preparing my sellers for their listing. We did the pre-listing inspection, fixed everything, staged the house beautifully, priced it perfectly. First weekend, we got three offers. One was fifteen thousand over asking with zero contingencies. I called them excited, thinking we'd be celebrating. Instead, the wife started sobbing and said she "wasn't ready to let go of the breakfast nook where the kids used to do homework." The husband then accused me of "rushing them" even though they called ME in January saying they needed to sell by summer. They rejected all three offers. Then they called me Monday morning furious that the buyers had moved on and demanding to know why I "let them get away." I explained that's what happens when you reject offers. They asked if I could call the buyers back and "see if they're still interested but maybe come up a little higher this time." We've now been on the market for forty-seven days. They've reduced the price twice and are currently blaming the photos. The photos that the wife approved after requesting eleven retakes because the throw pillows looked "too terracotta."