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CONFESSION #0485 — BROKER DRAMA
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
He wasn't on the title. The seller's brother, who had been making all the decisions, showing up to every meeting, negotiating the price down to $485,000 because he said his sister needed the money fast (she was in assisted living, which he mentioned maybe twelve times), this guy who I'd been working with for six weeks, he wasn't on the title. Title company calls me the day before closing and says we have a problem, and I'm thinking lien, I'm thinking easement dispute, but no, it's that the person who signed the listing agreement has no legal authority to sell the property. So I call him and he goes oh yeah I have power of attorney, and I say great send it over, and he says well I had it, past tense, because it was revoked in 2019 when his sister's daughter (who I didn't know existed) took over. He knew this. He knew this the whole time. The buyers had already scheduled movers. I had to call the daughter who lives in Phoenix and she said and I quote "my uncle does this every couple years, we've changed the locks twice." She wasn't even mad, just tired, and honestly same.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION OF A FIDUCIARY WITH AGGRAVATED UNCLE ENERGY IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity of a man who waved around a revoked power of attorney like it was still valid currency, which it was NOT, much like the Blockbuster gift card Reginald still carries in his wallet for reasons he will not discuss with this tribunal. Six weeks you worked with this man, SIX WEEKS of him invoking his sister in assisted living like some kind of sympathy talisman while knowing full well his POA had been legally euthanized in 2019, and yet YOU, the agent, never thought to verify authority to sell before accepting a listing agreement, a failure so profound that The Court must pause to collect itself. The daughter's weary resignation that "my uncle does this every couple years" suggests a pattern of behavior that should have its own Wikipedia page, and frankly the fact that she has changed the locks TWICE indicates this family has been running an unauthorized real estate obstacle course across the Phoenix metropolitan area. You let a man with the legal authority of a decorative yard flamingo negotiate a price down to $485,000 while buyers scheduled MOVERS, and for this The Court sentences you to the eternal knowledge that somewhere in Arizona, a tired woman is already preparing for her uncle's next attempt. Reginald must now go lie down because this ruling has activated his sciatica.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Uncle Of No Authority

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