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CONFESSION #0486 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The seller changed her mind. Three hours before closing. Not cold feet, not last-minute jitters. She calls me and says, "I've been thinking, and I want to keep the house but sell them the furniture instead." I said, "The furniture wasn't part of the deal." She goes, "Well it should be. That dining table is worth twelve thousand dollars." The buyers are already at the title company. Their moving truck is parked at a storage unit with everything they own in it. They've given notice at their apartment. I'm trying to explain that we have a signed contract for the house, not the furniture, and she cuts me off with, "Can't you just ask them? Maybe they'd rather have the furniture. It's Italian." The buyers' agent calls me and just goes, "What is happening." And I had to say out loud, to another professional, "She wants to sell them a table instead of a house." We closed four hours late. She cried the whole time. Kept touching the doorframes on the way out.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED FURNITURE SUBSTITUTION IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED ITALIAN TABLE FRAUD
The Court has witnessed many things in its years on this bench, but NEVER has Reginald beheld such a flagrant attempt to swap real property for dining room accessories. This seller attempted what legal scholars call "The Old Switcheroo" — a maneuver so brazen it was explicitly outlawed in Ethan Allen v. The Concept of Object Permanence, 2019. Three hours before closing, with buyers already assembled like hostages at a title company, this woman had the AUDACITY to propose that a twelve-thousand-dollar Italian table could somehow replace a HOUSE, as if square footage and marinara seasoning are interchangeable units of value. The Court must pause here to note that Reginald himself once became unreasonably attached to a breakfast nook, so there is SOME understanding of doorframe grief, but that is IRRELEVANT and the bailiff will strike it from the record. You, the agent, were forced to utter the phrase "she wants to sell them a table instead of a house" to a COLLEAGUE, which constitutes professional humiliation of the highest order. The crying was expected — the touching of doorframes was THEATRICAL — and the four-hour delay was simply the universe punishing everyone present for this woman's inability to distinguish between furniture and SHELTER. The Court finds the confession valid, the agent absolved, and Reginald must now go lie down because this ruling has given him a migraine shaped like a dining table.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.9/10 Furniture For Foundation Fraud

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