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CONFESSION #0523 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
The neighbor walked over. Middle of the open house, maybe 12 people inside, and this guy from next door just lets himself in through the back slider like he owns the place. Starts telling everyone the basement floods. Which it doesn't. I've seen the disclosures, I've seen the inspection, there's no water issue. But he's loud about it, really committed, and three couples leave in the next ten minutes.
Turns out he wanted to buy the house himself, made an offer six months ago that got rejected, and decided if he couldn't have it nobody could. The seller found out and wanted to sue him for tortious interference. Her lawyer said the case would cost more than the damages.
We sold it eventually. Took four extra months. The neighbor bought the one across the street.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF FAILURE TO DEPLOY TACTICAL COUNTER-SABOTAGE IN THE FACE OF NEIGHBORLY TREACHERY
The Court is APOPLECTIC at this display of passivity in the face of what can only be described as domestic terrorism with a slider door. You stood there, in YOUR open house, while some rejected-offer-having, fence-line-lurking MENACE waltzed in and performed what I can only call basement slander, and you did NOTHING? Where was the immediate pivot to "Oh wonderful, the neighbors are so friendly here, this gentleman actually tried to buy this home himself because he loves the area SO MUCH"? Where was the tactical reframe, the verbal judo, the SHOWMANSHIP? Reginald once had a man claim during an open house that the previous owner had been a taxidermist of questionable ethics, and I simply announced that the home came with "artisanal wildlife preservation history" and sold it for twelve thousand over asking. This confession reminds me of my second wife, who also let people walk all over her, specifically her yoga instructor, which is why I now preside over divorces I am not legally permitted to adjudicate. Four extra months on market because you let some slider-door vigilante run psychological warfare on your buyers, and he STILL got to buy on the same street? The Court finds this outcome personally offensive and must now go lie down.
Slider Door Surrender
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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