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CONFESSION #0295 — BROKER DRAMA
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
My broker calls himself a "visionary leader" but hasn't closed a deal personally since 2019. Last week he held a mandatory two-hour meeting to announce we're rebranding the brokerage for the third time in eighteen months. New logo, new colors, new business cards we have to pay for ourselves. His big revelation? We're shifting our focus to "luxury mindset" even though 90% of our listings are starter homes under $350k. Then he spent forty minutes showing us his new headshots and asking which one had "more gravitas." Meanwhile, our commission split is still garbage, the copier has been broken for six weeks, and he just bought a boat he won't shut up about. But sure, let's all manifest luxury. The kicker? He ended the meeting by reminding us that "there's no 'I' in team" while literally standing in front of a six-foot banner of his own face. I'm updating my resume between showings now. If I have to hear one more speech about "market positioning" from a guy who doesn't know our MLS password, I'm going to lose it.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CAPTAINING A SINKING SHIP WHILE POLISHING THE NAMEPLATE
This Court has witnessed many frauds upon the profession but RARELY one so perfectly encapsulated as a man standing before his own six-foot facial banner proclaiming the absence of the letter I in team. The defendant broker has committed what this bench calls Aspirational Malpractice in the First Degree, wherein one substitutes vision boards for viable business plans and headshot gravitas for actual gravitational pull in the marketplace. Judge Escrow himself once knew a man who rebranded his lemonade stand four times before age nine and that child grew up to be a BOAT OWNER as well, which is not the compliment these people think it is. The copier has been broken for SIX WEEKS. Six weeks! A copier is not a luxury item it is the SPINE of commerce and yet here we are manifesting luxury while documents pile up like accusations against a man who has forgotten his own MLS password. This Court sentences the broker to one full year of actually closing deals before speaking again, and orders the immediate removal of all facial banners exceeding two feet in any dimension. The agent is granted emergency permission to update their resume during any meeting that includes the phrase "luxury mindset." This Court needs air.
Gravitas Without Gravity
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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