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CONFESSION #0409 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Monday, March 30, 2026
Her daughter started asking questions. That's how it started. We're three days from closing, inspection done, appraisal done, buyer's already given notice at their apartment. Seller calls me and says her daughter thinks the chandelier in the dining room is a family heirloom.
I said it's in the listing photos. It's in the contract. The buyer specifically mentioned it during the showing.
She says "Well my daughter didn't know we were selling."
Your daughter is 34.
Then it's the bathroom mirror. Then it's the built-in bookshelf her husband made, which, okay, that one I actually looked into and it's literally bolted into the studs, it's not going anywhere without destroying the wall.
The buyer's agent calls me and just goes "What is happening."
I had to get a six hundred dollar credit for a chandelier that probably cost two hundred. The daughter never even came to get it. It's still sitting in the garage. The new owners sent me a photo last week asking if I knew anyone who wanted it.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO CHANDELIER HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION AND FAILURE TO CONTAIN A THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity on display here. A thirty-four-year-old daughter who did not know the house was being sold? Reginald's own daughter is thirty-one and she knows when I change brands of paper towel, because she has EYES and AWARENESS OF HER SURROUNDINGS. This is clearly a case of Multigenerational Fixture Attachment Disorder, first identified in Henderson v. That Ceiling Fan I Hate, 2019, wherein the Court ruled that adults who suddenly remember sentimental value three days before closing are entitled to NOTHING but a pamphlet on emotional regulation. The built-in bookshelf defense is PARTICULARLY offensive to this Court because everyone knows a bookshelf bolted to studs becomes REAL PROPERTY, this is not ambiguous, this is not up for debate, I once failed to recover my own spice rack in a divorce because of this EXACT PRINCIPLE and I have never emotionally recovered. Six hundred dollars for a two hundred dollar chandelier that is NOW SITTING IN A GARAGE like some kind of brass-plated orphan is the sort of outcome that makes The Court want to retire to a houseboat where fixtures are BOLTED DOWN BY NECESSITY. The daughter should be charged separately but she is outside this Court's jurisdiction, which is a MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE that Reginald will be writing strongly worded letters about. VERDICT RENDERED, The Court must now go lie down.
Heirloom Fraud Most Foul
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