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CONFESSION #0085 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
My seller decided to "help" by attending the first open house without telling me. I walked in to find her following potential buyers around, explaining that the weird smell in the basement is "totally gone now" and that the neighbor's dog "only barks for a few hours in the morning." One couple asked about the water stain on the ceiling and she launched into a fifteen-minute story about the "minor flood" from 2019. By the time I got her into the garage for a private conversation, she'd already told three separate groups that she's "motivated to sell because of the divorce." I spent the next week doing damage control calls to every single person who walked through that door. We've now had the house on market for 47 days with zero offers, and she keeps texting me articles about how homes in our area are "flying off the market in days." Yesterday she asked if maybe we should raise the price since "there's so much interest." The interest was a guy who wanted to use the bathroom and a woman who grabbed four cookies from the snack table and left.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED SELLER SABOTAGE AND FIRST-DEGREE OPEN HOUSE TERRORISM
This Court has witnessed many crimes against the sacred institution of real estate, but RARELY has it seen a seller so thoroughly demolish their own sale while somehow believing they were helping. Your client wandered through that open house like a one-woman disclosure violation, volunteering information about smells, floods, and DIVORCE with the enthusiasm of someone who has never heard the phrase "let your agent handle it." The Court notes with particular horror that she mentioned a smell being "totally gone now" which is legally indistinguishable from screaming "THERE WAS A SMELL AND IT MIGHT COME BACK" into a bullhorn. Judge Escrow must take a moment to acknowledge the two qualified buyers at your open house: Bathroom Man and Cookie Woman, both of whom showed more serious interest in your property than anyone your seller personally counseled. The suggestion to RAISE THE PRICE after 47 days of market humiliation suggests your client may be operating from an alternate dimension where cause and effect have reversed polarity. This Court sentences you to change your phone number immediately and rules that all future open houses must include a decoy property where your seller can roam freely while actual showings occur elsewhere.
The Helpful Destroyer
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