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CONFESSION #0496 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Saturday, May 2, 2026
The open house went fine. Good traffic, two serious buyers, we're moving. Then she calls me that night and says she's taking the house off market because she wants to repaint the kitchen. Not before listing. After three weeks on market. After we already dropped the price once. "It's too yellow," she says. "People keep commenting on the yellow." Nobody commented on the yellow. I was at every showing. Not one person said yellow. She repaints it gray. Takes her 12 days because she's doing it herself. We come back on market, one of the serious buyers already bought something else. The other one comes back, offers 15 under asking now because "the market shifted." She calls me furious. "Why did they lowball us?" Because you took your house off market for almost two weeks to fix a problem that didn't exist, Barbara. That's why. She didn't take the offer. Still sitting there. Gray kitchen and all.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ENABLING CHROMATIC DELUSION IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND FAILURE TO PREVENT FICTIONAL YELLOW SYNDROME
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED by Barbara's paint-based psychosis. Let the record reflect that in seventeen years of presiding over real estate disputes — and I include the time I adjudicated a bird bath placement controversy from my sister's patio — Reginald has never witnessed such a flagrant case of self-inflicted market sabotage. You had TWO SERIOUS BUYERS, Agent. TWO. That is approximately two more than most agents see in a fiscal quarter, and you let Barbara waltz off into a twelve-day gray paint fever dream because she invented comments about yellow that NEVER HAPPENED. This Court cites the landmark decision in Sherwin-Williams v. A Lady Who Should Have Just Sold Her House, 2019, which clearly established that seller-initiated color emergencies during active showing periods constitute grounds for immediate intervention. You should have told Barbara that the only thing yellow about that kitchen was her commitment to closing. Instead you let her repaint, lose a buyer, and now she sits in her gray kitchen like Miss Havisham if Miss Havisham had opinions about backsplashes. The Court must now adjourn because I am having feelings about a breakfast nook renovation I was never consulted on.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.4/10 Phantom Yellow Enablement

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