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CONFESSION #0271 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Sunday, December 7, 2025
I spent two months working with a buyer who had exactly one requirement: "I'll know it when I see it." That was the entire brief. No price range, no preferred neighborhood, no bedroom count. Just vibes.
So I showed her everything. Condos, colonials, mid-century ranches, a converted barn. After each showing, she'd just shake her head slowly and say something cryptic like "the energy isn't speaking to me" or "this house has secrets."
Finally, FINALLY, she walks into a perfectly normal split-level and gasps. Tears in her eyes. "This is the one. I can feel my future here."
We write the offer that night. Inspection goes fine. Appraisal comes back clean. I'm mentally spending my commission.
Three days before closing, she calls me at 11 PM to say her psychic advised her against the purchase because Mercury was in retrograde and the house number adds up to seven, which apparently conflicts with her life path.
She's currently texting me listings she finds on Zillow asking if any of them "feel like an eight."
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NUMEROLOGICAL HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE
This Court has presided over many horrors but NONE so cosmically offensive as being held professionally captive by a woman whose entire decision-making apparatus has been outsourced to a psychic and basic arithmetic. You showed her a CONVERTED BARN and she rejected it for having secrets? ALL BARNS HAVE SECRETS, THAT IS THE NATURE OF BARNS. And now, NOW, after Mercury has personally victimized your commission check, she texts you Zillow listings asking if they FEEL like an eight? Judge Escrow must ask: does YOUR life path number account for the therapy you will require? This Court notes that "I'll know it when I see it" is not a buyer requirement but rather a PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAP dressed in athleisure. The confession stands as evidence that some agents are not selling homes but rather performing unpaid spiritual guidance counseling for people who believe the cosmos cares about their breakfast nook. The Court is adjourning immediately because Judge Escrow's own psychic just advised him to lie down.
Celestial Closing Catastrophe
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