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CONFESSION #0521 — MARKET WHIPLASH
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
The photos looked great. That's what I kept telling myself when I listed it at 485. The photos looked great and comps from six months ago supported it. Except six months ago was a different planet apparently. We sat for 40 days, not a single showing after the first week. Sellers calling me every other day asking what's wrong, and I kept saying it's the market, it's interest rates, it's seasonal. Which was true but also I knew by day 12 we were priced wrong and I just didn't want to have the conversation. Finally dropped to 449 and got three showings immediately. Sold at 441. The sellers lost probably 20 grand in mortgage payments and stress because I couldn't admit I'd read the market wrong from the start. The husband said thanks for everything when we closed and I almost threw up in the parking lot. I pulled comps from a world that doesn't exist anymore and then I defended it for a month like I was right.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF WILLFUL MARKET DENIAL IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED COMP DELUSION
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity of citing six-month-old comps like they were carved into stone tablets by Moses himself. Six months ago the market was a different SPECIES, counsel, and you KNEW this by day twelve — DAY TWELVE — yet you continued to blame interest rates like they personally broke into that listing and sabotaged it. Reginald once held onto a belief for too long as well, specifically that my ex-wife would return my Le Creuset dutch oven, but even I eventually accepted reality and that was about COOKWARE not someone's LIFE SAVINGS. You watched this family hemorrhage twenty thousand dollars in carrying costs while you hid behind the word "seasonal" like it was a legal defense, and when that poor husband thanked you at closing, the universe itself dry-heaved. The Court finds it particularly DAMNING that you almost vomited in the parking lot because that means your BODY knew the truth even while your mouth kept lying. I am citing the landmark case of Denial v. Basic Professional Responsibility, 2019, in which the Court held that "hoping the market will prove you right is not a pricing strategy, it is a COPING MECHANISM." This Court is now adjourned because Reginald needs to go outside and scream at a tree.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Comp Fossil Syndrome

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