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CONFESSION #0161 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
I spent six weeks with a buyer who insisted on seeing every single house in person before making any decisions. No virtual tours, no drive-bys, nothing would substitute for walking through the door. Fine, I respect that. Thorough. Old school.
We saw 53 houses. Fifty-three. I kept a running tally in my car like a prison wall calendar.
After the last showing, she turned to me and said she'd decided to rent for another year because she "wasn't sure she was emotionally ready for homeownership." I smiled and said I completely understood.
But here's the kicker. Two weeks later, she texts me a Zillow listing and asks if I can show it to her. Same price range, same neighborhood we'd already covered twice. "This one just feels different," she wrote.
I replied that I'd be happy to, then muted her contact and stared at my ceiling for forty minutes. My husband asked if I was okay. I told him I was just resting my eyes. I was actually calculating whether my commission on a future sale would cover the therapy I now need.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF EMOTIONAL ENDURANCE BEYOND THE LIMITS OF REASONABLE COMMERCE
This court has reviewed the evidence and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL. Fifty-three houses. FIFTY-THREE. The defendant maintained professional composure through what can only be described as a psychological siege, smiling through a buyer who treated the housing market like a museum tour she had no intention of purchasing from. The confession reveals the accused later stared at their ceiling for forty minutes performing actuarial calculations on their own mental health, which this court recognizes as a cry for help disguised as fiscal responsibility. Judge Escrow himself once showed a client eleven properties before they revealed they were "just curious what was out there," and he did not speak for three days afterward. The husband asking if everything was okay while the defendant calculated therapy costs against hypothetical future commissions is the most married thing this court has ever witnessed. The muted contact remains muted to this day, and this court rules that it shall stay muted FOREVER, or until the commission makes mathematical sense, whichever comes first.
Zillow Purgatory Survivor
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