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CONFESSION #0598 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Both parties had signed. Closing was in three days. Buyers call me at 11 pm, and the husband goes "we need to talk about the backyard."
I'm like okay, what about it.
"We measured it today. It's smaller than we thought."
They measured it. After signing. After the inspection, after the appraisal, after everything.
The wife gets on the phone and says "we feel deceived."
The lot size is in the listing. It's in the disclosure. It's in the survey they paid for. I told them this.
"But it looked bigger when we walked it."
They wanted to back out. Over maybe 200 square feet of grass. The earnest money was 12 thousand dollars.
I spent an hour on the phone explaining what "binding contract" means. The husband kept saying "but we feel deceived" like if he said it enough times it would become a legal argument.
They closed. They were furious about it. Left me a two star review that said I was "unhelpful during a difficult time."
Two stars. Not one. Two. Like they were being generous.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED BUYER CODDLING IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH MALICIOUS INTENT TO HONOR A BINDING CONTRACT
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the injustice perpetrated against you by these measuring-tape vigilantes who apparently believed the backyard would expand like a sponge dinosaur once they took ownership. Let Reginald be absolutely clear — these people had a SURVEY, a DISCLOSURE, and presumably functioning EYEBALLS during their walkthrough, yet somehow the grass betrayed them at the eleventh hour. I once had a client try to back out because the garage "felt judgmental" and even THAT made more sense than measuring your future lawn three days before closing like you're solving a crime. The audacity of leaving two stars — TWO STARS — as if that one withheld star was their final act of mercy, their gift to you, their acknowledgment that you technically answered the phone at 11 PM while they weaponized the phrase "we feel deceived" like a incantation that would summon the Contract Dissolution Fairy. You should have told them that feelings are not a title exception and that The Court once ruled against a birdbath for creating "unrealistic expectations of outdoor ambiance" in Simmons v. That Decorative Frog, 2022. The two-star review is your Purple Heart, agent — wear it with pride, for you have survived combat with people who believed vibes superseded surveys.
GRASS GASLIGHTING VICTIM
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