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CONFESSION #0008 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
My seller called me seventeen times in one day because she was convinced the neighbors were "sabotaging" her listing. Her evidence? Someone parked a boat in their driveway the same week we went live. Not blocking anything. Not on her property. Just existing. She wanted me to ask them to move it because it was "lowering the neighborhood aesthetic." When I gently explained that I couldn't control what the neighbors did with their own driveway, she started crying and said I wasn't fighting for her. Then she accused me of secretly working with the neighbors. Ma'am, I met you six weeks ago through Zillow. I don't even know your neighbor's name. The next day she texted me at 6am asking if we should lower the price by $50K because of the boat situation. By noon she changed her mind and wanted to raise it by $20K to "weed out the unserious buyers." We're two weeks in and I've already aged five years. The boat is still there. It's a very nice boat actually.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE NAUTICAL HYSTERIA AND CONSPIRACY TO BLAME WATERCRAFT
This Court has presided over many cases of seller delusion, but RARELY has Judge Escrow witnessed such a magnificent descent into maritime paranoia. The defendant stands accused of enabling—nay, SURVIVING—a client who believes a stationary recreational vessel constitutes neighborhood warfare. Seventeen calls in one day about a boat that committed the unforgivable crime of existing in a driveway. This Court notes with some alarm that the seller accused the agent of conspiring with neighbors she met six weeks ago through ZILLOW, as if Zillow were some sort of shadowy intelligence network connecting real estate operatives with boat-owning saboteurs. The price swing from negative fifty thousand to positive twenty thousand in six hours suggests the seller is not operating from a spreadsheet but from a ouija board. Judge Escrow must commend the defendant for noting that the boat is, in fact, quite nice—this detail reveals a soul not yet broken. The Court needs a recess and possibly a lake house.
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