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CONFESSION #0483 — LOWBALL OFFER
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
The appraisal came in low. Like 40 thousand dollars low on a 380 asking price, and the buyer's agent calls me up and says okay so my client wants to renegotiate based on the appraisal and I'm thinking sure, that's reasonable, happens all the time, but then she sends over the new offer and it's not 340, it's 295. Two ninety-five. On a house that appraised at 340. And when I called her back she said (and I'm not making this up) that her buyer "felt like the appraiser was being generous" and that the real value was probably closer to 280 but they were meeting us halfway. Meeting us halfway from a number they invented. My seller had already bought her next house, she's got two mortgages running, she's paying like 6 grand a month combined, and I had to call her and explain that the buyer thinks her home is worth less than she paid for it in 2019. The buyer's agent kept saying "it's just business" which is what people say when they know they're being absurd but don't want to admit it.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF MATHEMATICAL TERRORISM AND AGGRAVATED NEGOTIATION FRAUD IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court is PHYSICALLY ILL. This buyer's agent invented a number out of thin air, called it a "meeting halfway," and expected everyone to nod along like we're all just pretending math works however we want it to. "The appraiser was being generous" — GENEROUS? The appraiser is a licensed professional with a tape measure and comparable sales data, not your aunt handing out extra birthday money because she "rounded up." Reginald once had a opposing counsel try to argue that a half-bath counted as a full bath if you "believed in it enough," and THIS is worse. Your seller is hemorrhaging six thousand dollars a month while some buyer sits at home calculating imaginary discounts from imaginary numbers they INVENTED, and their agent has the audacity to say "it's just business" as if that phrase is a get-out-of-shame-free card. "It's just business" is what people say right before they ask you to split the check after they ordered the lobster, and The Court WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. I am awarding your seller compensatory dignity and ordering the buyer's agent to retake third-grade arithmetic under court supervision. Reginald must now go lie down.
Fictional Math Warfare
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