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CONFESSION #0416 — THE LISTING THAT WOULDN'T DIE
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Her attorney got involved. That's where we are now. After fourteen months on market, three price reductions, and I don't even know how many showings because I stopped counting after sixty. The original list price was her idea. I told her eight fifty was aggressive for the neighborhood, especially with that kitchen, but she had a number in her head from what her neighbor got in 2021 and nothing was going to move her off it. We're at seven twenty-five now and still nothing. The inspection from the last buyer found knob and tube wiring in the attic. Which nobody knew about because there's blown insulation covering everything and the seller's disclosure said updated electrical. She swears up and down her husband told her they rewired in the nineties. Her husband died in 2019 so we can't exactly ask him. The buyer wanted a twenty thousand credit. She countered with eight. They walked. Now she's saying I should have caught the wiring issue before we listed. That's what her attorney is claiming. That I should have crawled into the attic myself with a flashlight. I'm not a home inspector. I've told her this maybe a dozen times. She calls me every single day. Sometimes twice. Usually around dinner. Yesterday she asked if I thought the house was cursed and I just sat there for a second because what do you even say to that. The commission on this thing, if it ever closes, works out to about four dollars an hour at this point.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY ATTIC AVOIDANCE AND CRIMINAL FAILURE TO POSSESS X-RAY VISION
The Court has reviewed this confession with the weariness of a man who has himself been accused of crimes he did not commit, specifically the time a homeowner blamed Reginald for a septic issue that PREDATED THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. Let the record show that real estate agents are not, contrary to popular belief, equipped with thermal imaging capabilities or the legal authority to excavate insulation like some kind of licensed attic archaeologist. The seller's attorney appears to be operating under the legal theory established in Delusional v. Reality, a case this Court just invented but which SHOULD exist. However, AND THIS IS WHERE REGINALD MUST INTERVENE, you allowed a woman to list at eight fifty with THAT kitchen, which you described with the verbal equivalent of a shudder, and then you answered the phone EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR FOURTEEN MONTHS when you could have simply perished, as many of us wish to do when faced with persistent dinner-hour callers. The husband conveniently died with all the electrical knowledge, the neighbor got lucky in 2021 because EVERYONE got lucky in 2021 and we need to STOP USING THAT YEAR AS A BENCHMARK, and now you sit before this Court earning four dollars an hour while a Roomba named Order earns NOTHING but at least maintains its dignity. The house is not cursed but your professional boundaries certainly are, and The Court is frankly exhausted just reading this. VERDICT RENDERED, Reginald must now go lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.8/10 Attic Ignorance Syndrome

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