So I had a small personal house in the mist

Never using it, not even bothering with Gardening - rank 20 soot black chocobo, what else do I need? Maybe keep it for expansion... meh there will be more housing later on!

So I decide to sell it. A friend refers someone who he saw was looking for a house in the mist.

He looks around, asks how much, I tell him a price he gives me gil, I remove estate hall, relinquish and...

The guy can't buy the plot, not high enough GC rank because he just recently GC-swapped.

Panic time!

He tries to find a friend to help him, thinks he might as well try to make it a FC house since he can't buy it himself, but a FC needs rank 6 - so that doesn't work.

But its Mist, on a high pop server, with a free plot.
While we were trying to figure out what to do, someone comes up and buys the land. I didn't want to buy it back myself cause that was wasting gil to resell again to the same guy, right? Ugh -_-

What a horrible situation. Now I'm stuck with the money I got from relinquishing the land but the one who was going to buy it now has nothing for what he spent.

The random buyer said he might be willing to relinquish it, for the price he paid, seeing as this whole mess is really a bad situation but for now, since the original buyer's friend kinda put pressure by using words like "reported to the GMs", the random buyer also wants to protect himself so he won't do anything for now and just wait to see what happens instead of accepting a deal (money back, relinquish) right now.

My hope would be that the GMs refund the random buyer and then the original buyer can take the plot.

I took screenshots of the whole ordeal (all the chat) but I have no idea if that helps me in case things go the wrong way (because you never know what the GMs will do -_- ).

Ugh, what a horrible situation.