Both parties had signed. Closing was in 12 days. Twelve. The buyer's lender calls me and says they need another appraisal because the first appraiser used a comp from a different school district. Not a different city. A different school district. The line is literally one street over. So we wait. New appraisal comes in 8k lower. Buyer wants the seller to drop the price. Seller says absolutely not, we already agreed, both parties signed. Buyer says they'll walk. Seller says let them walk. I'm on the phone with the other agent for two hours trying to figure out who's bluffing. Nobody was bluffing. We relist. Three weeks later, new buyer. Inspection happens. Inspector finds a crack in the foundation that wasn't there before. Or was there before and the first inspector missed it. Either way it's there now and it's going to cost 15 thousand to fix. New buyer walks. We relist again. This is month four now. Seller is paying the mortgage on this place and his new place. He calls me every single day. Not to yell, just to ask if anything happened. Which is almost worse. Third buyer comes in, lowball offer, seller takes it because he's bleeding money. We get to closing. Title search finds a lien from 2019 that the seller forgot about. Some contractor he never paid. The house is still sitting there. I drove past it yesterday. The lawn needs cutting and one of the shutters fell off. I don't even know who's supposed to fix that at this point.