Nathan Payne walked away from a buyer who tried to lowball him days before closing, then found a new buyer within 24 hours who paid $5,000 more. He stayed friends with the winning buyer, Jordy Clark, and learned that refusing bad last-minute deals pays off.
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So we reach out to the buyer, we talk to the buyer. It's been a couple of months, but, you know, it was still a good deal. Prices had obviously increased at that time. It's not like the deal had gotten worse. And the buyer— this was anything but smooth, guys. Guess what? The buyer tries to stiff us. By the way, we're ready to close like in a couple, like in a week or so. He's like, yeah, guys, I'm actually going to need it for a lot less. So he tries to stiff us knowing that we're about to close and we had not put any effort into finding any other buyers. He's like, I'm going to need it less. He tries to cut us. And I'm like, we don't play that game, buddy. So we said, nah, forget it. And we found a buyer within like a day. I know I've had some problems finding buyers, but we did not have a problem finding a buyer on this one. We found a buyer within like a day who paid actually $5,000 more than he was willing to pay. So forget him. I have no ill will towards him. I'm just saying, you tried to stiff us. It didn't work. And we found a better buyer. And I'm still friends with that buyer that sold the deal, that we sold the deal to, Jordy Clark. Shout out to you, man. You're the man.