Funny thing is, sometimes those ghost clients come back because they got denied elsewhere and they're hoping you forgot all the annoying parts. But here's the angle nobody thinks about, their sudden text might mean the house actually did get fixed up and they saw the new listing price on Zillow. So now they're worried about losing it to someone else, and that urgency is a real thing you can use. Just answer their text with a simple yes and the current asking price, no emotion, and see if they show up to the viewing this time. That usually sorts out the serious buyers from the time wasters pretty quick.

Took me 14 years and a burned out panel to finally trust anything over parallel, but hey, at least I get to blame my first boss instead of my wiring skills.

Ugh, color made me blind too, plain text countdowns in titles are the only thing that saves me now.