My favorite magician is Ben Mack. He is also a champion poker player and a fire-eater. In fact, he wrote the book on fire-eating! Fire Eating: A Manual of Instruction.
When we put a contract on our house, there were already 2 contracts ahead of us with different contingencies. There were also quite a few others in line after us. (The house had been on the market for 1 day!)
I really bonded with Ben. We had the same political leanings and he also was a huge Bill Hicks fan. He does a fundraiser every year for the Bill Hicks foundation--I think it raises money for endangered species---called a "rant-off" where people can get up and rant about whatever and other people pay to watch and to rant!). I had some very rare Bill Hicks stuff that he was able to donate to the archives/Bill's family. (BK might enjoy the rant-off!)
It took us over a week before we could figure out if we could swing it financially. These other potential buyers were pestering the realtor to show it to them, but Ben said he didn't want to show it to anyone else while we were still deciding!
We finally put a contract on it and left to take my mom and friends on a 2 week tour of Ireland. While we were gone, several other people tried to talk Ben into weaseling out of his contract with us...that they would pay him a considerable amount more. He didn't even consider their offers. He is a real mensch and my favorite magician.
During the closing, we had down time while the realtor (who turned out to be a local actor I knew from projects I worked on) was on the phone or tending to his baby daughter, so Ben entertained us with some pretty amazing card tricks. And as he is such an expert poker player (wrote a book about that, too!) we did wonder if he used any of his techinques on us when we negotiated the price.
An actor real estate agent seeling a house for a magician...I'm glad they were honest!