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CONFESSION #0411 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Both parties had signed. We were done. Inspection passed, appraisal came in at asking, buyer was pre-approved and motivated, closing in three weeks. Then my seller calls me at 9pm on a Tuesday and says she's been thinking and she wants to pull the hot tub because her daughter might want it for her new house (the daughter who lives in Minnesota and doesn't have a house yet, just to be clear, she's renting an apartment). The hot tub was in the listing photos. The hot tub was specifically mentioned in the purchase agreement as included. The buyer's agent calls me the next morning already furious because somehow the seller had already told the buyer directly at the final walkthrough that she was "probably taking the hot tub" and now we're renegotiating over a seven-year-old hot tub that needs a new cover and probably a new pump (I know this because she complained about the pump to me in September) and the buyer wants $4,000 off or they walk and my seller is acting like I'm the unreasonable one for not understanding about the daughter.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CONTRACTUAL HOT TUB ABANDONMENT AND MATERNAL DELUSION IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity on display here. A signed purchase agreement is not a suggestion, it is not a mood board, it is not something your seller can revisit because her daughter in MINNESOTA — a state that is frozen solid for nine months of the year — might theoretically want a malfunctioning hot tub for a house SHE DOES NOT OWN. Reginald himself once had a cousin who promised me his Weber grill and then gave it to Goodwill, and I have not spoken to that man since 2016, which is EXACTLY the energy this daughter situation deserves. The seller contacted the buyer DIRECTLY at the final walkthrough, which is a violation of chain of command so severe that The Court's Roomba, Order, just made a noise I can only describe as jurisdictional distress. You are not the unreasonable one, counsel, you are simply trapped in a prison of someone else's inability to distinguish between a binding legal document and a Pinterest board of maybes. This Court hereby orders the hot tub to remain, the $4,000 to be irrelevant, and the daughter to continue renting in Minneapolis or wherever she is being cold and hot-tub-less. THE GAVEL HAS SPOKEN AND REGINALD MUST NOW GO LIE DOWN.
Bubbling Betrayal
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