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CONFESSION #0284 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Saturday, December 20, 2025
I spent three months working with a buyer who wanted a "cozy starter home with character" in a hot neighborhood. Found her the perfect 1920s bungalow, original hardwood floors, updated kitchen, charming built-ins. She loved it. We wrote an offer that night.
Next morning she calls me sobbing. Her coworker's husband's cousin is a real estate agent two states away and told her she was "overpaying by at least 30%" based on absolutely nothing. No comps, no market knowledge, just vibes. She wanted to revise the offer down by $85,000.
I explained that we'd be laughed out of the room and lose the house. She accused me of "not fighting for her" and said maybe this cousin's husband's coworker—I mean coworker's husband's cousin—should take over.
I said sure, have him call me for the referral paperwork.
Never heard from her again. Saw on social media six months later she bought a new construction condo for $40k more than the bungalow would have cost. The cousin was not involved. She tagged her new agent with seventeen heart emojis.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF EMOTIONAL ABANDONMENT IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED BUNGALOW BETRAYAL
This Court has witnessed many crimes against reason, but the specter of the Coworker's Husband's Cousin looms before us like a phantom menace constructed entirely of audacity and zero zillow searches. The defendant agent displayed CRIMINAL PATIENCE in the face of what can only be described as a telephone game of terrible advice originating from someone two states away who has presumably never seen a 1920s built-in and wouldn't know character if it installed original crown molding in their living room. Judge Escrow must pause here to compose himself because SEVENTEEN HEART EMOJIS for a new construction condo is the kind of violence this Court was not prepared to adjudicate today. The defendant's sin was not in offering the referral paperwork—that was poetry—but in failing to physically manifest in that woman's home with laminated comps and a PowerPoint titled "Your Coworker's Husband's Cousin Is A Chaos Agent." The $40,000 premium she ultimately paid is what this Court calls the Stupidity Tax, and it is non-refundable. This Court needs to lie down.
The Cousin Catastrophe
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