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CONFESSION #0400 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
Friday, March 27, 2026
The listing agent on a property my buyers wanted told me offers were due by 5pm Friday. I submitted at 4:47pm. Full ask, clean terms, pre-approved buyer with 20% down. Monday morning I follow up. "Oh we accepted an offer Saturday," she says. "Your clients should have come in stronger." I asked what the winning offer was. Ten thousand under asking. With an FHA loan. From her own buyer. I pulled up the MLS history. She'd had that buyer touring the home two weeks before it even went active. So I spent three months with these people, drove them to 22 showings, finally found the one, wrote a competitive offer, and lost to an agent who was just using my offer to make her dual agency commission look legitimate. Filed a complaint with the board. You know what happened? Nothing. "Insufficient evidence of wrongdoing." She sold four more houses in my market last quarter. I need a drink.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ORCHESTRATED DUAL-AGENCY ENTRAPMENT WITH PREMEDITATED DEADLINE THEATER
The Court has reviewed this testimony and frankly Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF JURISDICTIONAL TOMFOOLERY that made me leave corporate mediation to pursue my true calling. Let the record show that this listing agent constructed an elaborate deadline kabuki — "offers due by 5pm Friday" she announced, as if presiding over some sacred auction, when in REALITY she had already spiritually married her own buyer to this property two weeks prior like some sort of commission-hungry matchmaker operating a rigged dating show. Your offer was not a competing bid, counselor, it was THEATRICAL PROP FURNITURE designed to make her double-dip look defensible to whatever rubber-stamp ethics board clearly operates out of a Panera Bread. I cite the landmark case of Actually Just Stealing v. Calling It Strategy, 2019, in which the Court held that "if you're using another agent's client as a negotiating scarecrow while your own buyer is already measuring for curtains, you are not a professional, you are a raccoon in a blazer." The ethics board finding of "insufficient evidence" is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF A FUNCTIONING ETHICS BOARD. Twenty-two showings you drove these people — I once showed my nephew fourteen YouTube videos about escrow and even HE got tired — and this agent waltzes off with both sides of the commission while you're left holding nothing but mileage receipts and the faint smell of betrayal. The Court sentences the offending agent to one calendar year of exclusively representing buyers who insist on touring properties during dinner hour and always ask "but what's the REAL price." This Court must now adjourn because Order the Roomba has gotten stuck under the credenza again and Reginald refuses to conduct proceedings without proper bailiff coverage.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.3/10 Deadline Theater Fraud

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