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CONFESSION #0554 — THE BUYER WHO NEVER BOUGHT
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Her attorney got involved. That's how it ended. After eight months. Eight months of showing this woman houses every single weekend, sometimes twice on Saturdays because she'd see something new hit the market and couldn't wait until Sunday. She had full pre-approval. Like, not the fake kind, the real kind. 620 thousand. Her lender called me directly to confirm. I have the email somewhere. We wrote six offers. Six. Lost three to other buyers, fine, that happens. But the other three she pulled out of. One was because the neighbor had a boat in their driveway and she said that meant they were probably loud. A boat. In the driveway. Not even a big boat. The second one, she didn't like how the seller responded to our inspection requests. Said they seemed defensive. They fixed everything we asked for. Everything. But the way they worded the response felt aggressive to her. Third one closed without her because she needed another week to think and the sellers said no. Then in month eight she finds a place she loves, we're under contract, inspection goes perfect, appraisal comes in at value, and her attorney—who she never mentioned before—reviews the HOA docs and finds some clause about rental restrictions and suddenly she's worried about her investment potential even though she told me repeatedly she was never going to rent it out. Her attorney got involved and then she just stopped returning my calls. I ran the numbers once. Gas alone was probably 400 dollars.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CLIENT ABANDONMENT SYNDROME AND WANTON DESTRUCTION OF A REALTOR'S WILL TO LIVE
The Court has reviewed this EIGHT-MONTH ODYSSEY OF TORMENT and frankly, Reginald needs a moment. Six offers. SIX. This woman treated your professional expertise like a free subscription service she forgot to cancel, and that boat in the driveway — THE BOAT, counsel, THE BOAT — was not even a big boat, and yet it somehow became grounds for contract termination as if the neighbor was running a maritime smuggling operation out of their suburban split-level. I myself once refused to purchase a home because the seller had a decorative rooster in the kitchen and I STAND BY THAT DECISION, but at least I had the decency to ghost my agent in month TWO, not month eight after six written offers and four hundred dollars of Premium Unleaded sacrifice. The attorney appearing from the shadows like a legal assassin to murder a perfect transaction over theoretical rental restrictions she explicitly said she would never use is the kind of betrayal that belongs in Shakespeare, or at minimum a Dateline episode. This Court finds the client guilty of Emotional Racketeering under the precedent established in In re: That Guy Who Kept Saying He Was Serious This Time, 2019, and sentences her to an eternity of Zillow browsing with no saved searches. The Court must now adjourn because Order the Roomba has detected crumbs in the deliberation chamber and justice waits for no one.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.8/10 Phantom Buyer Syndrome

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