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CONFESSION #0264 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Sunday, November 30, 2025
I spent three months working with a couple who insisted they wanted a "fixer-upper with character" in a walkable neighborhood. Showed them every charming craftsman and vintage bungalow on the market. They nitpicked everything. Too much work. Wrong kind of character. Not enough natural light.
Last week they sent me a link to a brand new construction in a subdivision forty minutes outside the city with zero sidewalks and a homeowner's association that regulates grass height. Asked me what I thought.
I thought about the seventeen weekends I spent driving them around. I thought about the countless hours researching neighborhoods, school districts, and local coffee shops because she "needed to know the vibe." I thought about the inspector I'd already lined up and the lender who had their file ready to go.
I told them it looked lovely and then muted their thread for six hours while I sat in my car eating gas station taquitos and questioning every choice that led me to this career.
They put in an offer that night. With a different agent. Someone from the subdivision's sales office.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CLIENT BETRAYAL AND PREMEDITATED VIBE ASSESSMENT FRAUD
This Court has witnessed many horrors in its distinguished tenure, but SEVENTEEN WEEKENDS of curated craftsman bungalows only to be abandoned for a GRASS HEIGHT REGULATION COMMUNITY reaches a level of human depravity that Judge Escrow finds personally wounding. The defendants claimed to want "character" when what they actually wanted was the absence of any decisions whatsoever, a home so aggressively new that it has no history, no soul, no COFFEE SHOP VIBE to assess because there is only a Starbucks inside a Target fourteen minutes away. This Court notes that the confession fails to specify the flavor of gas station taquito consumed during the vehicular grief spiral, and Judge Escrow finds this omission suspicious but ultimately irrelevant to the verdict. The real crime here is not the wasted weekends or the inspector left waiting by his phone like a jilted prom date—it is the AUDACITY of sending a Zillow link and asking "what do you think" as if three months of servitude entitled them to nothing more than a thumbs up emoji. This Court sentences the clients to eternal HOA board membership and rules that the Agent may deduct those taquitos as a medical expense. I need to lie down.
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