la/r:
It was foolish of the agent not to be upfront with everything from the beginning.
Its really impressive how dumb agents can be by being secretive.
If she had just said: “here are the numbers we need to reach to have an acceptable short sale” (which she obviously had in mind), she probably could have foregone all that bullshit.
If you had an objection to a seller kick out, you could have walked away then.
Instead this turned into a dumb game where she shows you the communication logs (which I would not do) and you decide if you can deal with the bullshit.