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CONFESSION #0386 — NEW AGENT BAPTISM BY FIRE
Sunday, March 22, 2026
My first solo listing, I'm 22 days licensed, and the seller asks if I can just hold the open house myself while she's at her daughter's soccer tournament. Sure. Absolutely. I've got this. What I did not have was the garage code. Which she forgot to give me. Which meant when the automatic door locked behind me while I was setting out the open house signs, I was standing in the driveway with no keys, no lockbox access, and fourteen people arriving in forty minutes. I called my broker. Voicemail. Called the seller. Phone off because soccer tournament. Called my mom, I don't know why, she lives in Ohio. Then I googled "how to break into a house legally" which, for the record, does not yield helpful results when you're panicking. A neighbor finally let me borrow a ladder and I climbed through a second-story window that the seller had left cracked for her cat. Showed the house for three hours with grass stains on my slacks and a torn blazer. Wrote two offers that day. Both fell through, but still. My broker's only feedback was that I should have worn a blazer that fit better.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL FELINE-PORTAL EXPLOITATION AND AGGRAVATED LADDER BORROWING IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession with the gravity it deserves, which is to say Reginald nearly choked on his morning coffee reading about a twenty-two-day licensee scaling a stranger's home like some sort of business-casual Spider-Man. You GOOGLED how to break into a house while standing in the driveway? In BROAD DAYLIGHT? The audacity! The search history alone constitutes evidence in what I am now calling "The State v. Your Browser History, 2024." And yet, The Court must acknowledge the resourcefulness here — you befriended a neighbor, you found the cat window, you WROTE TWO OFFERS while looking like you had just emerged from light combat. This reminds me of the time I attempted to adjudicate a boundary dispute at a Panera Bread and was asked to leave before I could render my verdict, which I maintain was legally binding despite what the shift manager claimed. Your broker's feedback about the blazer is technically correct but emotionally devastating, and I am entering a formal objection to it on your behalf. The cat window, for the record, has been subpoenaed as a character witness and declined to appear, which The Court finds SUSPICIOUS. Reginald rules that you demonstrated the exact unhinged determination this industry requires, and your sentence is to never tell the seller how you got in, ever, take it to your GRAVE.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.4/10 Authorized Cat Burglar

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