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CONFESSION #0434 — LOWBALL OFFER
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
We were in multiple offers. Six buyers on a house listed at 425. My clients come in at 380.
Monday 2pm: I submit the offer. Monday 3pm: listing agent laughs on the phone, actually laughs. Monday 4pm: my buyers refuse to go higher. Tuesday 9am: all other offers fall through, inspection issues on the buyers' end, financing problems, one guy just disappeared. Tuesday 11am: listing agent calls me back, voice completely different now. Tuesday 2pm: sellers counter at 395. Tuesday 4pm: my buyers counter at 382. Wednesday: sellers accept 385.
Thursday: my buyers ask if they overpaid.
I sat in my car for maybe ten minutes after that call. The lowball won. The actual lowball won. And they're worried about eight thousand dollars.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED LOWBALL SORCERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR MARKET DYNAMICS
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself in a state of PROFOUND JUDICIAL CONFUSION. You submitted an offer forty-five thousand dollars below asking in a six-buyer feeding frenzy, and The Universe simply handed you the keys like a tired Costco sample lady at closing time. This is not negotiation, this is WITCHCRAFT, and Reginald does not use that term lightly because I once accused a staging company of hexing a breakfast nook. The listing agent LAUGHED at you, counsel, actually laughed, and yet here we are, forty thousand dollars below asking with your clients clutching their pearls over eight thousand dollars like they found a hair in their inspection report. I myself once lowballed a Panera bread bowl by asking for extra soup and was escorted out by a teenager named Marcus, so I understand the audacity required here, but YOUR audacity was REWARDED which frankly destabilizes everything The Court holds dear. The sellers accepted three hundred eighty-five thousand dollars because the real estate gods decided to take Tuesday off and let chaos reign supreme. Your clients did not overpay, they committed THEFT BY TIMING, and if they ask you one more question about value you are hereby authorized to send them a notarized copy of this ruling and a fruit basket. The Court must now adjourn to have a word with my Roomba about jurisdiction over luck-based transactions.
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