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CONFESSION #0851 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Monday, September 7, 2026
The offer came in under asking. By like 12 thousand, which the seller said was fine, she'd accept, we're moving forward, great. Then the inspection happens and the buyer asks for a credit on the HVAC because it's original from 2006 and she says no, absolutely not, and I'm thinking okay that's your right but then she calls me at 9pm and says she wants to counter with a higher price than the original asking because (and I'm quoting here) "they clearly want it bad enough to do an inspection." That's not how any of this works. I explained that. She said her brother-in-law told her she was leaving money on the table. The brother-in-law sells insurance. So we're back and forth for three days and she finally agrees to the original accepted offer, the exact same number, but now she wants to exclude the refrigerator which was in the listing photos and the buyer noticed and asked about it specifically and I had to call her and say you can't just keep changing the terms and she said "I'm the seller" like that meant something different than what it means and the buyer walked and the house sat for another 6 weeks and sold for 8 thousand less than that first offer and she told me the market shifted.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED REFRIGERATOR HOSTAGE-TAKING AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT BROTHER-IN-LAW-INDUCED MARKET ANALYSIS
The Court has reviewed this testimony and must pause to collect itself because THIS IS WHY REGINALD DRINKS HIS COFFEE FROM A LEGALLY AMBIGUOUS MUG. Your seller accepted an offer, then decided an inspection — a STANDARD PROCEDURE dating back to the landmark case of Buyer v. That One Foundation Crack, 1987 — was evidence of excessive desire, as if checking whether a house will collapse is some kind of MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. The brother-in-law sells INSURANCE, counsel, which means his expertise lies in calculating the precise dollar value of your future regrets, not in real estate negotiation strategy, and yet his whispered wisdom somehow overwrote three days of your professional guidance. I myself once had a brother-in-law who insisted granite countertops were "going out," and I had him escorted from Thanksgiving by my emotional support Roomba. The refrigerator exclusion is where The Court's patience EXPIRED because that appliance was in the listing photos, it was part of the buyer's mental furniture arrangement, and your seller treated contract law like a SALAD BAR where she could just keep going back for more croutons. The market did not shift in six weeks, counsel — your seller simply discovered that spite has a carrying cost of eight thousand dollars plus the psychic weight of being WRONG. This Court finds the brother-in-law in contempt in absentia, and Reginald must now go lie down.
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