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CONFESSION #0188 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Monday, September 15, 2025
I had my seller completely lose it during a showing because the buyer's agent opened a closet door. Not a secret room. Not a crawl space full of mystery. A closet. With clothes in it. My seller was hiding in the garage watching the security cameras and called me screaming that the agent was "violating their privacy" by looking inside a closet. In a house. That is for sale. I had to explain that buyers generally want to see where they'll put their stuff, and that includes opening closets, cabinets, and yes, even the pantry. She demanded I add a showing instruction that buyers could only look at closets if they "seemed serious." I asked how exactly we'd measure seriousness. She said I'd "just know." We had four showings cancel after I sent the updated instructions because agents thought it was a joke. It wasn't. We're three weeks in with zero offers and she's convinced it's the market. I'm convinced I need a vacation.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ENABLING CLOSET-BASED INSANITY IN THE FIRST DEGREE
This Court has presided over many travesties of real estate judgment, but HIDING IN A GARAGE TO SURVEIL STRANGERS OPENING A CLOSET is a level of unhinged behavior that demands immediate intervention. The agent stands accused not of the seller's madness, but of the far graver crime of attempting to implement a "seriousness test" for closet access as if this were some kind of Narnia situation requiring proof of worthiness. You asked how to measure seriousness. YOU ASKED. The correct response was to laugh directly into the phone and then pretend the call dropped. Four agents thought your instructions were a joke because they WERE a joke, counsel, and the only person not laughing is your seller, who is presumably still in that garage, watching, waiting, protecting her cardigans from the eyes of the unworthy. Judge Escrow sentences you to one mandatory vacation and a new client intake questionnaire that includes the question "Do you own binoculars and if so, why."
SCANDAL RATING: 7.2/10 Closet Case Chaos

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