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CONFESSION #0294 — DEAL THAT EXPLODED
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
I had a deal last month that was fully executed, both parties signed, we were five days from closing. Buyers had done their final walkthrough, loved everything, movers were literally scheduled. Then the buyer's cousin—who is apparently a "real estate investor" because he flipped one duplex in 2019—decides to review the inspection report "just to be safe." Calls my buyer in a panic because the water heater was seven years old. Not broken. Not leaking. Just seven years old. Convinces him the whole house is basically a money pit and they need to walk away immediately or they'll be "underwater within a year." The buyer terminates the contract, loses his earnest money, and the seller is so furious she decides to take the house off the market entirely out of spite. Three months of work, gone. I ran into the cousin at a coffee shop last week and he tried to hand me his card in case I "ever need investment advice." I have never held a smile so hard in my entire life.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF MAINTAINING COMPOSURE IN THE FACE OF CATASTROPHIC STUPIDITY
This Court has reviewed the evidence and finds the defendant GUILTY of superhuman restraint in circumstances that would have broken lesser mortals. Let the record show that a man who flipped ONE DUPLEX in 2019 had the audacity to present himself as an authority on anything other than regret. This Court has seen war crimes prosecuted with less damning evidence than a seven-year-old water heater that WAS FUNCTIONING PERFECTLY. The cousin destroyed a fully executed contract, caused a seller to rage-quit the entire housing market, and then—AND THEN—attempted to distribute business cards as if he had done something other than commit financial arson. Judge Escrow himself once had a distant relative offer "investment advice" and that relative now lives in a storage unit he purchased as a "micro-home opportunity." The defendant's crime is not anger but the absence of it. You took that card. You SMILED. This Court finds such restraint deeply suspicious and possibly evidence of a dissociative episode. Case dismissed, this Court needs air.
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