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CONFESSION #0530 — THE BUYER WHO NEVER BOUGHT
Friday, May 15, 2026
The appraisal came in low. Twenty thousand under contract price, which happens, you deal with it. Seller agreed to split the difference. Buyer agreed. Lender reran the numbers, we're good. Inspection came back clean except for a water heater that was like twelve years old. Seller offered a credit. Buyer accepted. Every single obstacle, we cleared it. Three months of this guy calling me at nine PM asking if the seller was going to back out, if the rate was going to change, if the HOA was hiding something.
Closing day. I'm at the title company at ten AM. His lender is there. The seller is there. We're all sitting around a conference table with bottled water and a notary.
He texted me from the parking lot. Said he wasn't sure he wanted to live in that zip code.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED ZIP CODE COWARDICE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF PARKING LOT BETRAYAL
The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly, Reginald needs a moment. Three months. THREE MONTHS of hand-holding, of midnight reassurances, of shepherding this man through every normal real estate hiccup like he was crossing the Delaware with Washington himself, and he TEXTS you from the PARKING LOT about ZIP CODE CONCERNS? The audacity. The GEOLOGICAL AUDACITY. This Court once ruled against a man for returning a couch because he decided he no longer believed in sitting, and somehow THIS IS WORSE. The notary was READY. The bottled water was ROOM TEMPERATURE AND WAITING. As established in Hernandez v. That Guy Who Got Cold Feet at the Altar But At Least He Went INSIDE, 2019, there is no legal or moral framework that permits zip code revelation while idling in a Honda Civic twenty feet from your own future. I myself once hesitated at a closing because I thought I saw my ex-wife's Volvo in the parking lot, and even THEN I had the decency to walk inside and sign before having my breakdown in the bathroom like a CIVILIZED PERSON. This Court finds the buyer guilty and sentences him to eternal renting. REGINALD HAS SPOKEN AND REGINALD MUST NOW GO FEED ORDER.
Parking Lot Deserter
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