It is anger, stubbornness, frustration, "if I can't get my house no one will".

He is a stubborn man and has only sold three properties in his life (one to me, one to a friend of a family, and that property). 

I had a case where I was weeks away from the sheriff actually evicting a seriously stubborn tenant, and an interested buyer for the home actually went to the home and worked with the current tenant to have them leave so they could move in. 

My GC primed and painted over them a few times thinking they were just old, stubborn stains that needed extra product, but they kept coming back after each rainfall.I hired a water intrusion detection company to help me pinpoint the problem - they said the new roof seemed solid and that based on infrared and temperature readings, the moisture is coming in from the partition walls.

(You could look at 100+ days but usually those sellers are stubborn.

Except the government bureaucracy and people's stubbornness, of course.We always report taxes for one specific year, and it changes from year to year.

In my many years of this (property management company for over 20 years) I have dealt with similar stuff a handful of times and I still get the pit in my stomach and sweats while my stubborn side says do not cave in when we know we are right.

Facts are stubborn things.

We have a young and stubborn tenant who steadfastly refuses to give a firm answer as to if the bedroom ceiling is still leaking.

Our agent recommended going with a local bank since they understood the non-warrantable condo issue, but I was stubborn and wanted to go with our original bank.