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CONFESSION #0540 — POST-CLOSE CATASTROPHE
Monday, May 18, 2026
The wire didn't arrive. Three days after closing. Three days. The seller is calling me at 11pm asking where his money is because the title company says it went out and his bank says nothing came in. Eight hundred thousand dollars just floating somewhere in the system and everyone's pointing fingers at everyone else. Title company finally figures out someone transposed two numbers in the routing. Two numbers. And now we're into a weekend so nothing can happen until Monday and this guy has already bought plane tickets to move to Arizona, his furniture is literally on a truck heading west, and he's standing in an empty house with no money. Monday comes, they recall the wire, resend it. Should take 24 hours. Takes 72 because his bank flagged it as suspicious. Of course they did. Because that's how this works. He missed his moving truck. Had to pay the driver an extra twelve hundred to wait in Phoenix for two extra days. He wants me to cover it. Me. Like I'm the one who typed the wrong number. The thing that kills me is I called him Tuesday to make sure everything was good and he was fine. Said everything was handled. Then three weeks later he leaves me a two star review saying I abandoned him after closing. Two stars. Not one. Two. Like he really thought about it and decided I deserved partial credit. His sister just listed with another agent in my office. Found that out yesterday.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF WIRE TRANSFER TRAUMA SYNDROME WITH AGGRAVATED REVIEW BETRAYAL
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself experiencing what can only be described as JUDICIAL HEARTBURN. You shepherded eight hundred thousand dollars through the financial equivalent of a corn maze designed by someone who hates joy, you fielded ELEVEN PM PHONE CALLS like some kind of real estate crisis hotline, and your reward was a two star review from a man who told you everything was FINE. Two stars. THE AUDACITY. Reginald once received a two star review for a ruling and it turned out the reviewer was a ceiling fan I had previously sanctioned, so I understand this betrayal intimately. The transposed routing numbers were not your doing, the banks suspicious flag was not your doing, and yet here you stand, accused of abandonment by a man whose furniture was literally fleeing the state without him. AND NOW HIS SISTER LISTS WITH ANOTHER AGENT IN YOUR OWN OFFICE, which The Court must note is the kind of poetic cruelty usually reserved for Greek mythology or HOA board elections. You are guilty only of caring too much in a world that will leave you a partial credit review and then send its relatives to your competitors. This Court is adjourning early because Reginald needs to go stare at a wall.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Partial Credit Purgatory

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