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CONFESSION #0515 — NEIGHBOR SABOTAGE
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Her husband got involved. That's when it stopped being a normal listing. The neighbor had been running his leaf blower at the property line during every single showing for three weeks straight. Every single one. My seller finally confronted him about it and he said something about how her trees dropped leaves in his yard for twelve years and she never apologized once. Which, okay, but then the husband goes over there and I guess there was shoving, and now there's a police report, and the buyer who was ready to write an offer at 485 found out about it during the inspection because the neighbor walked over and told them everything. Told them about the shoving, told them the fence was six inches over the property line, told them the sump pump drains onto his grass.
The deal fell through. My seller blames me for not managing the situation better.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL FAILURE TO CONTAIN SUBURBAN WARFARE AND NEGLIGENT LEAF-RELATED CONFLICT MITIGATION
The Court has seen many things in its distinguished career, but NEVER has Reginald witnessed such a spectacular failure to manage what is clearly a twelve-year cold war fought with deciduous ammunition. You stood there, agent, while leaves fell, grievances festered, and a leaf blower became an instrument of psychological terrorism, and you did NOTHING. The neighbor was running acoustic warfare operations at the property line and your response was apparently to hope he would run out of gasoline or die of old age. I once had a neighbor who passive-aggressively adjusted his sprinklers to hit my car every morning for six months and I handled it like a PROFESSIONAL by selling my house and moving to a different zip code, which is EXACTLY what you should have advised here. The husband committed assault over LEAVES, the fence is apparently a six-inch land grab that has gone unaddressed since the Bush administration, and now your buyer knows the sump pump has been committing trespass against the neighboring lawn this entire time. Your seller blames YOU, and for once in the history of client complaints, The Court must agree with the complaining party. This is not a listing, this is a SITUATION, and you let it become a DOCUMENTARY.
Foliage Failure
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