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CONFESSION #0396 — DEAL THAT EXPLODED
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Friday 4pm: Buyer signs final offer. We're $12k over asking, escalation clause, full appraisal waiver. Listing agent says we're the frontrunner. Friday 6pm: Listing agent calls to say seller is "sleeping on it." Fine. Saturday 9am: Seller accepts. I send the DocuSign. Saturday 11am: Buyer texts asking if we can withdraw because his wife just found out about the girlfriend. Saturday 11:03am: I learn the girlfriend is the seller. Saturday 11:47am: Listing agent calls me screaming. Sunday: Radio silence from everyone. Monday: Seller's attorney sends a demand letter. Buyer's wife sends me a friend request on Facebook. I decline. The house goes back on market with a $15k price increase and a disclosure addendum I'm genuinely afraid to read. Anyway I made $0 and I'm pretty sure I'm getting subpoenaed as a witness in a divorce.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION IN DOMESTIC ESPIONAGE AND RECKLESS FACILITATION OF ROMANTIC CATASTROPHE
The Court has reviewed this confession no fewer than four times, not for legal clarity but because Reginald simply could not believe what he was reading. You, agent, brought an escalation clause to what was clearly an ESCALATING SITUATION OF THE HEART. This buyer used appraisal waivers and earnest money to conduct what can only be described as infidelity arbitrage, and YOU were the unwitting escrow mule. I once had a client try to hide a boat in a divorce by listing it as a "water feature" — that man had more integrity than your buyer. The girlfriend IS the seller? IN WHAT JURISDICTION OF ROMANCE DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? You facilitated a transaction where the consideration was not merely financial but apparently included the complete destruction of a marriage, and The Court must now take a brief recess because my Roomba just bumped into the witness stand and I need to restore order. That disclosure addendum probably lists "emotional hazmat" as a material defect, and frankly this Court is ADDING that to the MLS as a required field effective immediately. Case closed, Reginald needs a nap and possibly a restraining order from this entire situation.
SCANDAL RATING: 8.7/10 Domestic Chaos Escrow

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