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CONFESSION #0534 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Saturday, May 16, 2026
The other agent emailed at 9pm. Said her buyers were confused because the listing photos showed a red front door and now it was green. I called my seller and she said oh yeah, I painted it this morning, I got bored. This was three days before closing. I said okay, that's fine, just don't change anything else. She said of course not.
Next day the buyers do their final walkthrough. The kitchen backsplash is gone. Not damaged, gone. She said she never liked it and figured she'd take it with her to her new place. It was tile. It was grouted tile. There's just adhesive residue and chunks of drywall missing now.
Repair estimate came in at sixteen hundred dollars. She argued for twenty minutes that it was her tile. We closed eleven days late.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED BACKSPLASH EXTRACTION AND WANTON DISREGARD FOR THE PERMANENCE OF GROUT
The Court is SPEECHLESS, and yet The Court will speak at CONSIDERABLE LENGTH. This seller committed what can only be described as tile terrorism, a crime so brazen it makes Reginald question whether anyone has ever understood what the word "fixture" means. You cannot simply PEEL YOUR KITCHEN OFF THE WALL because you "never liked it" — that is not how real estate works, that is not how grout works, and frankly that is not how SOCIETY works. I once had a client try to take a ceiling fan and I had to lie down for forty minutes, but this woman excavated a GROUTED BACKSPLASH like she was conducting an archaeological dig of her own poor decisions. The door was a warning shot, a crimson-to-emerald cry for help that you IGNORED, and now there are chunks of drywall missing and a repair estimate that probably made the buyers weep into their earnest money. She argued for twenty minutes that it was "her tile" — oh, was it also her wall, her house's structural integrity, her buyer's SANITY? The Court rules that this seller be banned from all home improvement stores and that you, Agent, must never again use the phrase "just don't change anything else" without a legally binding pinky promise. Reginald must now go lie down because this confession has given him actual heartburn.
Grout Theft Auto
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