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CONFESSION #0512 — MARKET WHIPLASH
Saturday, May 9, 2026
The deal had been dead for a week before I found out. Buyer's agent called me on a Tuesday, casual as anything, says oh yeah they walked last Monday. Last Monday. And I'm sitting there having sent my sellers three emails about cabinet hardware selections in the meantime. Three emails. They're picking between brushed nickel and oil-rubbed bronze for a house that isn't selling anymore. Here's the thing though — the buyer's agent says she left me a voicemail. She didn't. Or she called the wrong number. Or I don't know. But my phone shows nothing, my voicemail shows nothing, and now I have to explain to my clients why I've been radio silent on the actual status of their sale while obsessing over hinges. The market dropped 12 percent in six weeks. Their backup buyer lowballed them by 80 grand. They took it. They had to. I still don't know if she actually called me.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT VOICEMAIL VERIFICATION FAILURE AND ACCESSORY TO CABINET HARDWARE DELUSION
The Court has reviewed this confession with the same intensity Reginald once applied to a property disclosure that failed to mention a haunted attic, and frankly, this is WORSE. You spent a week — A WEEK — consulting on brushed nickel versus oil-rubbed bronze while an $80,000 crater opened beneath your clients' financial future, and your defense is "maybe she called the wrong number"? THE COURT DOES NOT ACCEPT TELECOMMUNICATION AMBIGUITY AS EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE. In the landmark case of Missed Calls v. Professional Responsibility (2019), this very bench established that "I didn't get the voicemail" is the real estate equivalent of "the dog ate my CMA." You know what Reginald does when he suspects a voicemail didn't come through? He CALLS BACK. He TEXTS. He sends a CARRIER PIGEON if necessary, because The Court once lost a bid on a charming Tudor because of a similar "communication breakdown" and spent four months in what my therapist calls "a spiral." Your clients lost eighty thousand dollars while you were functionally debating DRAWER PULLS, and somewhere in a parallel universe there's a version of you who picked up the phone on day two and asked "hey, any updates?" but that version doesn't exist in THIS courtroom. The Roomba has entered a verdict of GUILTY and The Court must now go lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Hinges of Negligence

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