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CONFESSION #0735 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
The appraisal came in low. Twenty thousand under contract price. Buyer's willing to split the difference, meet in the middle, everybody walks away happy. Seller says no. Says he wants to wait for another buyer. I explain that's not how this works, we'd have to start over, relist, probably get the same appraisal issue. He says fine, let's do that. Then three days later he calls and says actually he wants to accept the original offer. I tell him the buyer moved on. He says get them back. I say I can't, they're under contract somewhere else now.
He relists with me because somehow this is all my fault but also he trusts me. We get another offer, eight thousand less than the first one. He takes it.
I made four hundred dollars less commission helping him lose twelve thousand dollars.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY FIDUCIARY SERVITUDE IN THE PRESENCE OF WEAPONS-GRADE STUBBORNNESS
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the mathematics involved. You guided this man to a perfectly reasonable compromise, he rejected it like a toddler refusing vegetables, and then he RELISTED WITH YOU as if you were the problem. This is the real estate equivalent of a man setting his own house on fire and then asking the firefighter why everything smells like smoke. Reginald once had a client reject a full-price offer because Mercury was in retrograde, and I still think about it during quiet moments at Costco. You lost four hundred dollars in commission shepherding this gentleman through his twelve-thousand-dollar journey of self-discovery, which means you were essentially PAYING HIM to ignore your advice. The buyer moved on, as buyers do when sellers treat contract negotiations like a game of hard-to-get at a middle school dance. This Court finds you guilty only of excessive patience and sentences you to bill this man for therapy. Order the Roomba is making a sound that suggests even IT is frustrated. Case dismissed, Reginald needs to go stare at a wall.
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