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CONFESSION #0200 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Saturday, September 27, 2025
I spent six weeks with a buyer who insisted on seeing every listing within 45 minutes of it hitting the MLS. Every. Single. One. Didn't matter if it was during dinner, my kid's soccer game, or 9 PM on a Sunday. "The market moves fast," she'd remind me constantly, like I didn't know that. She rejected 23 houses. Too much yard. Not enough yard. Wrong shade of gray on the cabinets. Neighbor's car looked "suspicious." Finally, FINALLY, she found "the one." We went under contract. I cried actual tears of relief. Three days before closing, she backs out because she drove by at night and "the streetlight made the house look orange" and she "couldn't live with that energy." The streetlight. A city-owned streetlight. That she could literally request the city change. She then asked if I'd start showing her condos instead because she realized "yards are too much responsibility." I told her I was going on an extended vacation. I'm not. I just sit in my car sometimes and stare at nothing. That's my vacation now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF STREETLIGHT-INDUCED SOUL EVACUATION AND WILLFUL YARD PHILOSOPHY REVERSAL
This Court has presided over matters of profound human failing, but the crime described here represents something far more sinister: the systematic disassembly of a real estate professional's will to live, executed one gray cabinet at a time. The defendant buyer—and make no mistake, SHE is the defendant here—committed what this Court can only classify as psychological terrorism via residential indecision. Twenty-three houses rejected, including one dismissed because a neighbor's CAR LOOKED SUSPICIOUS, as if the Honda Civic in question was planning something nefarious. Then, having located the holy grail of acceptable square footage, she abandons ship because a MUNICIPAL LIGHT FIXTURE cast an unflattering hue upon her dreams? Judge Escrow has seen the face of madness and it is illuminated in sodium vapor orange. The agent now sits motionless in their vehicle, staring into the middle distance like a combat veteran who has seen too much beige—and this Court finds that entirely reasonable. To the buyer: may every condo you tour have a streetlight that makes it look like a correctional facility, and may the HOA fees be INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.8/10 Municipal Illumination Trauma

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