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CONFESSION #0467 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
She called on a Sunday. Said she wanted to see the listing on Maple, the one with the sunroom. Great, fine, I'll meet you at two. She shows up with her husband and their dog. Big dog. Some kind of mastiff mix, had to be 120 pounds. Nobody mentioned a dog.
The sellers had cats. Three of them. The cats were supposedly locked in the master bedroom but one got out when I was showing the kitchen and the dog just lost it. Knocked over this antique hall table, broke a lamp that was apparently worth eight hundred dollars. The husband's trying to grab the collar, the wife is screaming at the husband, the cat's on top of the refrigerator hissing.
And then the dog pees. Right on the hardwood. The original hardwood that the sellers had just refinished for like three grand before listing.
The couple leaves. Doesn't apologize, doesn't offer to pay for anything, just leaves. The wife says something about how I should have warned them about the cats. Me. I should have warned them.
The sellers wanted me to pay for the lamp. Called my broker. Said I was negligent. The listing agent had to get involved. There were emails for two weeks.
Nobody bought that house for another four months. The pee stain never fully came out, you could see it in certain light. We had to disclose it. A dog pee disclosure. That's a real thing I had to write.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL FAILURE TO ESTABLISH CANINE PROTOCOLS RESULTING IN CATASTROPHIC URINE DEPLOYMENT
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer audacity of buyers who show up to a showing with an undisclosed 120-pound biological weapon and then have the UNMITIGATED GALL to suggest YOU should have warned THEM. Reginald once had a client bring a ferret to a condo walkthrough and that ferret got into the HVAC system and I still hear scratching sounds when I close my eyes but that is NOT THE POINT. The point is that you are guilty not of negligence but of existing in a profession where you must write the words "dog pee disclosure" on an official document, which is a sentence that should be illegal in seventeen states. The sellers wanting YOU to pay for the lamp when these maniacs rolled up with a mastiff like they were sieging a medieval castle is the kind of backwards logic that makes The Court want to retire to a jurisdiction where dogs cannot own property, which is ALL OF THEM, and yet somehow these buyers walked away consequence-free. You wrote a urine disclosure. You disclosed urine. In certain light. The Court is going to need a moment. VERDICT RENDERED, The Court must now go lie down in a dark room and think about what humanity has become.
PREMEDITATED MASTIFF WARFARE
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