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CONFESSION #0157 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Friday, August 15, 2025
I spent four months showing a couple every home in their price range. We're talking 47 properties. They took notes in matching leather journals and created spreadsheets ranking each house on 23 different criteria. Finally, they found "the one" and we put in an offer. Got it accepted after some back and forth.
The next day, the wife calls me crying. Her sister just sent her a Zillow link to a house two towns over that has a slightly bigger pantry. Could we back out and see that one instead? I calmly explained earnest money, breach of contract, and how we'd been searching for four months. She said, "But you don't understand, I do a lot of canning."
They backed out. Lost their earnest money. I showed them the pantry house. It was next to a sewage treatment plant. They passed. We're now on month seven and they've added "must not smell weird" to their criteria list. I've started keeping wine in my car.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED PANTRY TERRORISM AND PREMEDITATED SPREADSHEET ABUSE
This Court has witnessed many horrors in its distinguished tenure, but FORTY-SEVEN PROPERTIES ranked on TWENTY-THREE CRITERIA only to be undone by a sister with a Zillow account and dreams of preserving FRUIT? The defendant has been held hostage by people who treat home-buying like a doctoral thesis defense, and this Court finds their suffering both profound and entirely self-inflicted for not fleeing after property twelve. The addition of "must not smell weird" to the criteria list suggests these buyers will next require homes certified free of ghosts, bad vibes, and neighbors who make eye contact. Judge Escrow III himself once showed a property near a rendering plant and simply told the buyers it was "artisanal air" - THIS is salesmanship. The wine in the car is not unprofessional; it is SURVIVAL. This Court sentences the canning wife to eat exclusively store-bought preserves for one calendar year while the defendant is granted a restraining order against all matching leather journals.
Pickled Dreams Deferred
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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