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CONFESSION #0034 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Monday, April 14, 2025
I hosted an open house last Sunday where a woman walked in, immediately took off her shoes, and proceeded to take a 45-minute nap on the master bedroom bed. Not a quick sit-down. A full nap. With a blanket she pulled from the staging closet. When I finally woke her up, she said she was "testing the energy of the space" and that the room "didn't speak to her." Then she asked if I had any snacks besides the cookies I'd set out because she was "more of a savory person." Meanwhile, a couple let their kids use the backyard pool without asking, a guy spent twenty minutes in the bathroom doing god knows what, and someone's dog peed on the listing agent's carefully placed decorative throw pillows. Not a single person who came through was actually pre-approved or working with a lender. One guy admitted he just likes "seeing how other people live." I spent $200 on staging touches and four hours of my Sunday for exactly zero leads. But sure, open houses are "great exposure."
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF OPERATING AN UNLICENSED DAYCARE, NAP FACILITY, AND PUBLIC URINATION STATION DISGUISED AS REAL ESTATE MARKETING
This Court has witnessed many indignities visited upon the hardworking agents of this nation, but today we confront something truly GROTESQUE: the transformation of a Sunday open house into what can only be described as a free-range human zoo with complimentary bedding. The blanket woman—and Judge Escrow refuses to dignify her with any other title—committed what this Court recognizes as Premeditated Cozy Trespass, a crime so brazen that I must pause to collect myself. You spent two hundred American dollars so that a stranger could critique your cookie selection while a child canonballed into a pool you do not own and a dog DESECRATED throw pillows that had LIVES ahead of them. The gentleman who "likes seeing how other people live" is not a buyer, counsel—he is a documentarian of your suffering. This Court hereby sentences the entire concept of open houses to mandatory pre-approval verification and finds you guilty only of optimism, which in this market is its own punishment. I need to lie down now but NOT on anyone's staged bed.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Assisted Naptime Facility

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