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CONFESSION #0537 — COMMISSION CATASTROPHE
Sunday, May 17, 2026
The buyers came back for a third showing. Third. And I'm standing there thinking okay, this is it, they're ready. So I start talking about how we can probably get the seller down another ten thousand, maybe twelve, because the inspection found some foundation stuff. Except. The foundation stuff was the other house. Different listing entirely. These buyers hadn't even done an inspection yet because they hadn't made an offer because I was confusing them with the Hendersons from Tuesday. And now they're looking at me like wait, foundation problems? And I'm trying to backpedal but the damage is done. They walked. My seller calls me that night asking why someone told her buyers there's foundation issues with her house. I had to explain that I basically tanked my own showing by mixing up which family I was talking to. Eight thousand dollar commission, gone, because I had too many showings that week and apparently can't keep track of basic information. My broker just stared at me for a really long time.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL CLIENT CONFLATION AND RECKLESS FOUNDATION SLANDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has witnessed many acts of professional self-sabotage, but THIS — this is a masterclass in how to lose eight thousand dollars with nothing but your own mouth and a catastrophic failure of basic memory. You stood there, in that sellers home, and IMPORTED STRUCTURAL DAMAGE FROM AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROPERTY like some kind of chaos agent smuggling defects across listing lines. The Hendersons from Tuesday were not there, counsel, THE HENDERSONS WERE NEVER THERE, and yet you spoke to these phantom Hendersons while actual living buyers watched you unravel in real time. Reginald once confused a garage for a bonus room during a particularly stressful week in 2021, and even HE did not accuse someone elses house of having foundation problems TO THE CURRENT BUYERS FACE. Your broker stared at you for a really long time because she was calculating how many more of you she could afford to lose before switching careers entirely, and frankly The Court is doing the same math. This is not a showing, this is a one-man theatrical production called How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Destroy My Own Commission, and the curtain has FALLEN.
Henderson Confusion Catastrophe
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