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CONFESSION #0364 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
My seller decided the night before our first open house that she needed to "spiritually cleanse" the property. I arrived at 10 AM to find her burning sage in every room, which had set off the smoke detectors and filled the house with a haze that made it look like a crime scene. When I gently suggested we air things out, she burst into tears and said I was "blocking the energy transfer" and that the house would never sell if we didn't "release the memories." She then proceeded to tell me about every significant moment that happened in each room for the next forty-five minutes while potential buyers started arriving. I had to conduct showings while she followed us around whispering apologies to the walls. One couple asked if someone had died there. Another just turned around and left. She called me that night furious that we didn't get any offers and suggested maybe I should have "dressed more professionally." I was wearing a blazer. She was wearing a bathrobe and holding a crystal the size of my fist.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PERMITTING CEREMONIAL SABOTAGE IN A RESIDENTIAL SHOWING ZONE
This Court has witnessed many sins against the sacred institution of property transfer, but standing idly by while a bathrobe-clad mystic conducts a séance during an OPEN HOUSE represents a new low watermark for agent spinelessness. You arrived to find smoke detectors screaming and visibility reduced to "active warehouse fire" conditions, and your response was to GENTLY SUGGEST airing things out? Judge Escrow would have seized that sage bundle and declared martial law over the entire listing. Instead you allowed this woman to apologize to WALLS while buyers fled in terror, presumably assuming they had wandered into either a murder scene or a very aggressive essential oils demonstration. The fact that she later criticized YOUR professionalism while dressed like a spa escapee clutching geological specimens is merely the cosmic justice you deserved for failing to establish dominion over your own showing. This Court sentences you to forty-five minutes of listening to someone else describe the emotional significance of their breakfast nook while strangers judge your blazer. I need to step outside.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Sage Against The Machine

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