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CONFESSION #0565 — BROKER DRAMA
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
We lost the earnest money dispute. Eight thousand dollars, gone, because our broker decided to play lawyer on a Saturday.
Buyer's agent calls, says their client wants out, inspection stuff, whatever. Normal. My broker picks up the phone and goes "Well technically under paragraph 14B you've waived that right" and I'm standing there like please stop talking.
The buyer's agent recorded it. Played it back in mediation.
"You said paragraph 14B."
"I was paraphrasing."
"You were wrong."
My seller is texting me every 20 minutes asking about her eight thousand dollars and I have to keep saying we're working on it, we're working on it.
Broker pulls me aside Monday, says "This is why we have E&O insurance." Like that fixes it. Like my seller cares about his insurance.
She switched to a different brokerage. Took her sister with her. Sister had a listing in Maple Heights, easy sale, and now that's someone else's.
He still thinks he was right about 14B.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF RECKLESS PARAGRAPH CITATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED WEEKEND LAWYERING
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the thought of a broker invoking paragraph 14B on a SATURDAY like some kind of contract vigilante who learned law from a laminated quick-reference card. Reginald once witnessed a man at a Panera Bread try to cite the Geneva Convention over a soup temperature dispute, and THAT man showed more restraint than your broker. You stood there, you WATCHED him incriminate himself into a recording device, and you did nothing — The Court sentences you to the memory of those twenty-minute text intervals FOR LIFE. "This is why we have E&O insurance" is the real estate equivalent of setting your house on fire and saying "this is why we have smoke detectors," and The Court is now grinding its gavel into the bench in frustration. The sister's Maple Heights listing haunts this courtroom like a ghost of commission checks past, and your broker STILL thinks he was right, which is the most devastating detail of all. The Court must now adjourn because Reginald has developed what feels like a stress ulcer and Order the Roomba is making concerning noises near the evidence table.
Paragraph Malpractice
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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