The commission check was short. Not because of the sale price, the sale price was fine, but because I had to pay for the replacement of a $1,200 vintage chandelier that the stager's assistant walked into with a ladder (and here's the thing, I wasn't even in the room, I was outside talking to the photographer about the drone shots which we also didn't end up using because of the cloud cover) and the homeowner had this chandelier appraised like three years ago and kept the paperwork in a folder specifically labeled "chandelier" which should have been my first warning sign about this particular client. The stager tried to say it was already loose, already wobbly, which maybe it was but it wasn't on the floor in six pieces before they got there. Her assistant just kept saying "I didn't see it" over and over like that was a defense and not literally the problem. The showing was in four hours. We staged around the missing chandelier by putting a floor lamp underneath where it used to hang and telling people the owners were "updating the lighting" which technically became true. Sold in three days but I'm still thinking about that ladder.