Real estate agents recently revealed to Inman the most unexpected reasons they’ve lost deals — including a fear of snakes, hatred of Glade Plug-ins, bad vibes and, apparently, off-kilter feng shui.
Source: Inman News
‘It must have 16 cabinets’: 6 deals that died for wild and silly reasons
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