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CONFESSION #0495 — HOA HORROR
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Her husband got involved. That's when I knew we were done. The HOA had sent a violation letter about the fence height being 8 inches too tall and my seller, instead of just trimming the damn fence, she forwarded it to her husband who's an attorney (not real estate, something corporate, I don't know, mergers) and he wrote a 12-page response citing case law from like 1987 and now the HOA board president won't return my calls because she says she's "been advised not to engage" which means they have their own lawyer now. The buyer's lender needs HOA certification to close. The HOA won't certify anything while there's an "open dispute" which there wasn't until the letter. The fence was installed by the previous owner in 2019 and nobody said anything for 5 years but now suddenly it's structural noncompliance and the fine is $200 a month retroactive which they're calculating from when they "discovered" it meaning the day they sent the letter so really just $200 but the husband is fighting it on principle and the buyer's rate lock expires Thursday. I called him directly and he said "I will not be bullied by a volunteer board" and I said sir I just need you to cut 8 inches off a fence and he hung up on me.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ENABLING FENCE-BASED LEGAL TERRORISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE
Let the record show that this Court has presided over many disputes involving husbands who should have stayed in their lane, but THIS, this is a masterwork of self-destruction that Reginald himself could not have authored in his darkest hours. Your seller's husband, a MERGERS attorney, has merged this transaction directly into a ditch because he could not tolerate a volunteer board suggesting his fence was 8 inches too ambitious. EIGHT INCHES. The Court once had a neighbor who disputed a property line by 3 inches and I told him Gary if you have this much energy maybe finish your divorce first, and he did not speak to me for 2 years which honestly was fine. You stood there watching a corporate lawyer cite 1987 case law at a woman named probably Brenda who just wanted the fence shorter, and you thought what, that this would resolve itself? The buyer's rate lock expires THURSDAY and this man is treating a $200 fine like it is Brown v. Board of Education. You should have taken the seller aside on day one and explained that principle is a luxury for people who are not under contract, but instead you let this man fax his manifesto to a community pool committee and now everyone has lawyers except apparently you. The Court finds that you are guilty of standing near a dumpster fire with a clipboard while mumbling about timelines. Order, my Roomba bailiff, will now escort this confession to the archive while Reginald goes to lie down because this has genuinely upset him.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.9/10 Fence Defense Nonsense

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