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CONFESSION #0450 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The seller changed her mind. That's what the other agent tells me. Thursday, 4pm. We'd been under contract for 12 days. Friday 9am: I call to ask what happened. She says the seller "got cold feet." Friday 11am: I find the listing back on MLS. Price is up 15k. Friday 2pm: different agent's name on it. Saturday: my buyer drives by. There's an open house sign. The original agent is hosting it. Monday: I call her broker. He says she "transitioned the listing internally." I ask what that means. He hangs up. Tuesday: my buyer writes a new offer. 8k over the new price. No response. Wednesday: sold to someone else. Cash. She took the listing from herself and double-ended it. That's what happened. My buyers had been looking for 6 months. The wife cried in my car.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED CONTRACT ASSASSINATION AND FIRST-DEGREE COMMISSION HOARDING WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because this one hits DIFFERENT. What we have here is a textbook case of listing larceny — the kind of betrayal that makes Estate v. Basic Human Decency (2019) look like a PARKING TICKET. This agent didn't just get cold feet, she got WARM HANDS counting both sides of that commission while your buyers' dreams died in a Honda Civic. The audacity of hosting an open house on a property she JUST claimed the seller wanted to keep is the kind of brazen duplicity I haven't seen since my second wife "transitioned" our marriage "internally" to my former racquetball partner. "Transitioned the listing internally" — oh, is THAT what we're calling fraud now? Should I "transition" my gavel "internally" into this desk? The broker hanging up tells The Court everything it needs to know: that office has the ethical foundation of a flip built on a sinkhole. Your buyers cried in your car, and somewhere that agent is crying too — INTO A PILLOW STUFFED WITH DOUBLE-ENDED COMMISSION CHECKS. The Court finds this conduct so egregious that Order the Roomba just vacuumed toward the exit in protest and Reginald must follow because justice cannot breathe in this room any longer.
SCANDAL RATING: 8.7/10 The Inside Job

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