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CONFESSION #0494 — THE LISTING THAT WOULDN'T DIE
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Both parties had signed. Closing was in 12 days. And then the buyer's agent calls me and says her client found out the neighbor has chickens and she's pulling out. Not like a chicken farm, just chickens, maybe 6 chickens in a backyard coop that you can barely see from the property and that had been there the entire time she toured the house three separate times (and I know she saw them because she commented on how cute they were during the second showing, I have witnesses). So we lose the buyer, fine, back on market, get another offer two weeks later, this one's solid, inspections go fine, and then three days before closing the seller calls me crying because she changed her mind and wants to stay because her daughter who lives in Portland said maybe she'd move back eventually and would need somewhere to live. The daughter is 34 and has lived in Portland for 11 years. I had to explain that backing out now meant the $8,000 earnest money situation and possible legal action and she said she'd pray about it and then didn't answer her phone for two days. We closed. The daughter did not move back. That listing took 9 months and I made $4,200 after the split and honestly the chickens weren't even that loud.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED POULTRY-ADJACENT TRANSACTION SABOTAGE AND WILLFUL MATERNAL DELUSION FACILITATION
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity of everyone involved except the chickens, who frankly conducted themselves with more professionalism than any human in this transaction. Let Reginald be absolutely clear: a buyer who compliments livestock as "cute" on showing number two does NOT get to claim fowl-based duress twelve days before closing, and this Court cites the landmark decision of Henderson v. Six Reasonably Quiet Hens, 2019, in which it was established that "if you coo at it, you cannot sue over it." As for the seller and her phantom Portland daughter, The Court has seen this exact delusion approximately four hundred times, and it is ALWAYS a daughter, it is ALWAYS Portland, and she is NEVER coming back because she has a pottery collective and a situationship with someone named River and she does not want to live in her mother's split-level, YOUR HONOR HAS SEEN THINGS. Nine months of your life, agent, NINE MONTHS, for forty-two hundred dollars, which after taxes and therapy barely covers the emotional labor of explaining earnest money to someone who responds with "I'll pray about it" and then goes INTO HIDING. The chickens were not even that loud and yet somehow they are the only parties in this matter who understood commitment. Reginald must now go lie down because this case has awakened memories of a listing involving a woman, her estranged son in Austin, and a koi pond, and The Court is not prepared to revisit that trauma today.
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