Bad Deals Only

The Boston summer real estate market is cooling off, and the deals that are still happening are brutal. In Episode 12 of Bad Deals Only, Seth Williams and Nick Nardone break down why every transaction feels like a fight right now, why everyone (buyers, sellers, agents, and honestly Seth too) is being so difficult this time of year, and what a summer slowdown really means if you are trying to buy o...

Two real estate vets, zero filter. Seth Williams and real estate attorney Nick Nardone break down how deals actually get done — and undone — in today's market. Seller financing, no-cap escalation clauses, escrow holdbacks, and the trust that nearly blew up a closing. Real tactics, real bad deals, and a lot of laughs along the way. In this episode: How a business coach's dare turned into a one-phon...

An AI assistant that drained its own budget, a hole-in-the-floor FHA deal, and a litter of puppies born on a seller's porch the morning of closing. Seth Williams and real estate attorney Nick Nardone get into the deals that go sideways, the brokers who pass the buck, and why the agent who solves the $300 problem is the one who gets the next call. In this episode: How Seth's AI build went off the r...

Spring offer season is here and it is melting everyone's brains. Nick and Seth open on the whiplash of happy new-client calls and festering problem calls, then dig into a condo market drowning in inventory, a starter-buyer pool that is frozen in place, and the real math of renting versus owning. Plus a run of genuinely unhinged bad-deal stories. In this episode: Condo inventory exploding while two...

Everything actually happening in today's real estate market, minus the spin. Nick and Seth break down mortgage rate volatility, why deals keep falling apart, and the real conversation buyers, sellers, and agents are having behind the scenes. In this episode: Where mortgage rates are actually heading Why deals are falling apart right now The truth about competing offers Real estate horror stories f...

A blizzard, a missing toaster, and a buyer's agent who never showed up. This one earns the name. Nick and Seth get into the February snow lull, why septic and Title V testing grinds to a halt in winter, and how to get a listing sold anyway. Then the main event: a deal where the buyer toured the open house three times with the listing team, produced their own agent at the last minute, asked for $10...

How tech platforms quietly flip the commission structure and sell agents back their own clients. Nick and Seth dig into the referral-fee machine taking 30 to 40 percent off the top, why handshake deals get people burned, and what actually protects you when someone refuses to pay after closing. In this episode: Compass, Coldwell Banker, and the future of mega brokerages Zillow, FastExpert, and refe...

Everyone says they miss snow until it actually falls on Boston. Nick and Seth break down why Massachusetts is objectively terrible at snow removal, how half an inch turns the city into a crisis zone, and why New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont quietly run laps around us every winter. In this episode: Why Boston panics at the first flake The unhinged history of space savers Snow removal scams and con...

It starts with lobster sauce loyalty and ends with how real estate deals actually die. Nick and Seth open on New England Chinese food economics, then get into why today's deals fall apart. Not over price, but over inspections, unrealistic expectations, and buyers feeding inspection reports straight into ChatGPT. In this episode: Why inspection timelines keep stretching longer How AI is reshaping b...

Holiday chaos, inspection fights, and a wire transfer that never actually existed. Nick and Seth break down why inspection negotiations go sideways, how repair requests blow up clean deals, and what the latest Massachusetts inspection law changes mean for buyers and sellers. Then it gets personal with holiday party politics, RSVP lies, and a cash buyer story you have to hear to believe. In this ep...

The deals nobody wants to admit went sideways. Welcome to Bad Deals Only. Real estate attorney Nick Nardone and Boston broker Seth Williams pull back the curtain on what actually happens when a transaction starts to unravel. Inspection chaos, permit disasters, and agents who torch a clean deal over nothing. This is the messy reality of buying and selling in Massachusetts. In this episode: Why so m...