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CONFESSION #0343 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
I had a buyer last year who absolutely HAD to close before the end of the month for "tax reasons" his brother-in-law told him about. We rushed everything. I called in favors with the lender. The title company stayed late twice. The sellers rearranged their entire move. We made it happen with two days to spare. Then he asked if we could push closing back three weeks because he forgot he'd booked a cruise. When I explained that wasn't really how it worked and we'd have to renegotiate everything, he told me I was being "difficult" and asked why I couldn't just "press pause" on the transaction. Like there's a pause button. Like thirty people weren't involved in making his arbitrary deadline happen. We closed on time. He showed up an hour late because he stopped for breakfast. Signed everything while eating a breakfast burrito and complained the pen was "too scratchy." He left me a four-star review because the house "smelled weird" on one of our showings. That was his own cologne. I watched him spray it on in my car.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF TEMPORAL TERRORISM AND AGGRAVATED BURRITO DESECRATION OF SACRED DOCUMENTS
This Court has witnessed many atrocities in its distinguished tenure, but rarely has it beheld such BREATHTAKING audacity as a man who mobilizes an entire army of professionals for his imaginary tax deadline, then asks to "press pause" for a CRUISE. The defendant believes real estate transactions operate like his Netflix account. They do not. Judge Escrow himself once closed on a property during a Category 2 hurricane because that is what COMMITMENT looks like, and this man cannot even commit to his own fabricated urgency. The cologne incident sends this Court into a spiral from which it may not recover—the AUDACITY to marinate oneself in department store fragrance, hotbox an agent's vehicle with it, then cite "weird smell" in a review as if one's own scent trail is not following them like a shameful ghost. The scratchy pen complaint while masticating a breakfast burrito over legally binding documents is a war crime against escrow. This Court must adjourn immediately as Judge Escrow feels his blood pressure becoming unconstitutional.
SCANDAL RATING: 8.7/10 The Audacity Cruise

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