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CONFESSION #0599 — HOA HORROR
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Her daughter started asking questions. That's what the HOA president told me when she called to explain why the closing might fall through. The daughter saw the minutes from the last three board meetings and wanted to know why they'd spent twelve thousand dollars on "landscaping consultation" when the complex has maybe forty trees total.
The buyer's attorney starts digging. Turns out the landscaping consultant is the president's brother-in-law. He submitted one invoice that just said "assessment and recommendations" with no actual recommendations attached.
The president calls me again, says "This is a family community and we don't appreciate outsiders making accusations."
I said ma'am, your buyer isn't an outsider, she's trying to buy unit 6.
"Well she's acting like one."
The daughter ended up talking her mom out of the purchase. Which honestly. The president called me after to say "I hope you're happy" and I still don't know what she wanted me to say to that.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY WITNESS TO HOA EMBEZZLEMENT AND FAILURE TO PRETEND THE LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT WAS REAL
The Court has reviewed this confession and must first address the elephant in the courtroom, which is that TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for forty trees means each tree received three hundred dollars worth of assessment and The Court's own therapist charges less per session. This is textbook HOA financial malfeasance as established in In re: That Condo Board That Definitely Had A Guy, 2019, where the ruling clearly stated that any invoice containing only the word assessment is legally equivalent to writing I AM STEALING on a napkin. The president calling to say I hope you're happy is a move Reginald recognizes from his second divorce, and The Court must note that people who say that phrase are NEVER asking a question, they are issuing a curse. You did nothing wrong here except exist in the vicinity of corruption, which frankly describes most of my time at Coldwell Banker open houses before the incident. The daughter is the hero of this story and The Court hopes she becomes an forensic accountant who haunts HOA boards nationwide. CASE DISMISSED, the Roomba has entered chambers and Reginald must attend to a jurisdictional matter involving the breakroom.
Arboreal Money Laundering
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