The lender called three days before closing. Not about the loan, about the photos. Apparently someone on their team pulled up the listing and saw the staged living room and asked why there was a different couch in the appraisal photos. Different couch. Because the staging company came back and swapped furniture between the appraisal and the final photos and nobody told me. The sellers hired their cousin to do staging because she had "done it before" which meant she owned a storage unit full of furniture from estate sales. Fine. The cousin shows up with this massive brown sectional, I mean this thing looked like it survived three divorces. But it fit the room, whatever. Appraisal happens. Then the cousin decides actually no, she wants to use her new gray sofa instead, the one she just bought, so she comes back while I'm at another showing and swaps everything. Now the lender thinks we're hiding something. Like we removed furniture to cover up floor damage or something. Had to get the sellers to send a video walking through the house proving the floors were fine. The cousin kept texting me saying she didn't understand the problem. Twelve texts. She didn't understand why I was upset. The closing got pushed five days. The buyers almost walked because they had movers scheduled. My sellers had to pay for a rate lock extension, eight hundred dollars. The cousin still has not apologized. She asked me last week if I had any other listings she could help with.