The title search flagged something. A lien from 2019, mechanical contractor, twelve thousand dollars. My seller swears up and down he paid it, he has the canceled check, he's screaming at me on the phone about how this is impossible. Great. Love that for me. So he's digging through boxes in his garage for three hours looking for this check while we have buyers sitting in underwriting waiting to close in nine days. He finds the check. Sends me a photo. Check is made out to a completely different company. Different name, different everything. He paid the wrong contractor. For a job they never did. On a property he doesn't own. He mixed up invoices from two different houses he was renovating back then and just... paid the wrong one. The actual lien is still there. Still owed. Now he's furious at ME somehow. Keeps saying I should have caught this earlier. Sir, I sell houses. I don't audit your personal filing system from five years ago. The title company found it. That's literally their job. That's what happened. He wants to fight it. Wants to hire a lawyer to prove the contractor overcharged. We close in nine days. The lien is twelve thousand. His lawyer costs four hundred an hour. I tried to explain the math but he's not hearing me. He's on principle now. His wife called me separately to apologize. Said he gets like this. Asked if I could just handle it. Handle what. Handle your husband? Handle the twelve thousand dollars? Handle the concept of linear time?