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CONFESSION #0842 — LOWBALL OFFER
Friday, September 4, 2026
We were three days from closing. Everything signed, inspections done, buyer's loan approved. Then the buyer's agent calls me and says his client wants to renegotiate because they found out the neighbors have a trampoline. A trampoline. They want twelve thousand dollars off because of liability concerns about a trampoline they don't own, on property they won't own, that has nothing to do with the house.
My seller is a retired teacher who already bought her condo in Florida. She's got movers scheduled. She's cancelled her utilities. And now I have to call her and explain that these people want twelve grand because a kid next door might bounce too high.
She cried for about ten minutes and then agreed to give them eight thousand. The neighbors took the trampoline down a week later.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT EXTORTION AND FAILURE TO DEFEND AGAINST BOUNCY-RELATED TERRORISM
The Court is PHYSICALLY ILL at what has transpired here. You allowed your client, a RETIRED EDUCATOR who devoted her life to teaching children, to be shaken down for eight thousand American dollars because some neighbors had the AUDACITY to let their offspring experience joy in their own backyard. This Court has seen agents fold under pressure before, but never has Reginald witnessed such a spectacular collapse in the face of what can only be described as trampoline-based hostage negotiation. The buyer's agent called you with this ABSURD demand and instead of laughing directly into the telephone and hanging up, you became an accomplice to theft-by-hypothetical-bounce. I once refused to reduce my offer on a duplex because the seller's cat looked at me dismissively, and I HELD THAT LINE for six weeks until the cat moved out of its own accord. You should have invoked the doctrine established in Springfree Industries v. Reasonable Human Behavior, 2019, which clearly states that neighboring recreational equipment is NOT YOUR PROBLEM. The fact that those neighbors removed the trampoline one week later means your seller paid eight thousand dollars for NOTHING except the privilege of being bullied by cowards who probably also complain about wind chimes. The Court must now go lie down because this level of injustice has activated my sciatica.
Bounced Into Submission
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