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CONFESSION #0446 — MARKET WHIPLASH
Monday, April 13, 2026
The seller called while I was on vacation. First vacation in two years, sitting on a beach in Florida, and she tells me she accepted a cash offer from her neighbor. No agents involved. Just shook hands over the fence apparently. The buyer I had lined up, the one who waived inspection and came in 40k over ask, she told him no three days ago because she wanted to "think about it." That buyer is gone now. Bought something else yesterday.
She wants to know if I can still get my commission since I "did all the work." Her neighbor offered 85k less than my buyer. Eighty-five thousand dollars less. She said the neighbor seemed "more serious" because he came to her door in person.
My margarita cost fourteen dollars and I couldn't even taste it.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED COMMISSION SABOTAGE AND FELONY FENCE-BASED TRANSACTION INTERFERENCE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity on display here. This seller rejected a buyer who waived inspection AND came in forty thousand dollars over asking price because she wanted to "think about it," only to accept EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS from a man whose primary qualification was proximity to her azalea bushes. The Court cites the landmark decision in Handshake v. Binding Contract, 2019, which established that neighborly fence negotiations hold approximately the same legal weight as a pinky promise made during a solar eclipse. Reginald himself once lost a listing to a client's nephew who "just got his license" and "really needed the experience," so The Court understands the unique agony of watching competence be punished while whimsy is rewarded. The seller now has the AUDACITY to inquire about your commission after she treated your carefully cultivated buyer like an inconvenient Jehovah's Witness at her door. A fourteen dollar margarita should be a SANCTUARY, not a vessel for processing betrayal. The Court rules that you are entitled to your commission, her neighbor's commission, and honestly probably the fence itself as compensatory damages. This Court is now in recess because Reginald needs to call his therapist.
Fence-Adjacent Betrayal
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