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CONFESSION #0553 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
Friday, May 22, 2026
The other agent emailed at 9pm. Not to me, to her own client, but she CC'd everyone. The email said my buyers were being unreasonable about the repair requests. Called them nitpicky. Said they were asking for too much on a house they were already getting below asking.
My buyers saw it. Obviously. They're on the CC line.
The repair request was for a water heater that was leaking. Actively leaking. We had photos. The inspector flagged it, wrote it up, circled it in red. We asked for $800 credit. Eight hundred dollars on a $340,000 purchase.
She calls me the next morning like nothing happened. Starts talking about how we need to keep emotions out of it. Keep it professional. Ma'am. You called my clients nitpicky in writing. To their faces. Electronically.
Then she says maybe I should coach my buyers better. Coach them. On what. On accepting a leaking water heater. On pretending they didn't read an email with their names on it.
The seller ended up agreeing to the credit because the seller was actually reasonable. The seller was fine the whole time. It was just her. Making everything harder for no reason. Adding days to the timeline because she had to argue about whether a leak was really a leak.
My buyers closed but they told me at the final walkthrough they almost walked three separate times. Not because of the house. Because every interaction with her made them feel like they were doing something wrong for buying a home.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED EMAIL MALPRACTICE WITH RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR THE CC LINE
The Court is APOPLECTIC. This agent committed what can only be described as the digital equivalent of walking into a restaurant, sitting down at someone else's table, and loudly critiquing their food choices TO THEIR FACES while pretending they cannot hear you. The CC line is not a suggestion, it is not decorative, it is a LEGALLY BINDING INVITATION TO WITNESS, and this agent used it to insult your buyers like she was filing a formal complaint with the Bureau of People Who Want Functioning Water Heaters. Reginald himself once CC'd his therapist on an email to his dry cleaner and the fallout was SIGNIFICANT, so The Court understands the gravity of correspondence crimes. Eight hundred dollars for a LEAKING water heater on a three hundred forty thousand dollar purchase is not nitpicky, it is called NOT WANTING TO LIVE IN A SWAMP, and the fact that this agent then had the AUDACITY to suggest you should coach your buyers on accepting active water damage suggests she may have been raised by raccoons who lived in a flooded basement and simply normalized the experience. The phrase keep it professional should be permanently revoked from her vocabulary and transferred to someone who deserves it, perhaps a golden retriever, who would never CC a client on their own insult. The Court finds the seller innocent, the buyers traumatized, and this agent guilty of making real estate worse for everyone involved. Reginald must now go stare at his gavel collection until his blood pressure returns to acceptable levels.
CC'd Their Own Crime
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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