I had a seller who was completely fine—calm, reasonable, easy to work with—right up until we got our first offer. It was $15,000 below asking, which in this market is basically a compliment. But you would have thought I'd personally insulted her grandmother's grave. She called me seventeen times in two hours. Seventeen. I know because my phone logged them. She wanted to know if the buyers were "serious people" and whether we should "report them to someone." Report them to who? The real estate police? By the third day of negotiations, she was convinced I was secretly working for the buyers because I suggested we counter at $8,000 below asking instead of raising the price out of spite. She actually said, "Maybe we should just list higher to teach them a lesson." Teach THEM a lesson. We ended up selling for $5,000 below original asking, which she now describes to everyone as "a robbery" that happened "because my agent rushed me." I have the text messages where she begged me to "just make it stop" during week two of negotiations. I screenshot everything now.