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CONFESSION #0600 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Closing was at 2pm. At 1:45 the seller calls me and says she wants to keep the refrigerator. The refrigerator that's been in the contract since day one. The refrigerator the buyers specifically asked about during the walkthrough that morning. I should have said no. I should have said we're fifteen minutes out, this isn't happening. But she'd already changed the closing date three times, swapped out the washer and dryer last week, and I just. I was tired. I said let me call the buyers. The buyers wanted a $400 credit. Reasonable. The seller said $200. I told her $400 or we're pushing closing again and she'd lose the house she was buying because her funding was locked to today. She took the $400. Here's my mistake. I never got it in writing before we sat down. Just told the title company verbally. Three weeks later the seller's disputing the credit on her settlement statement and I've got nothing documented. Nothing. My broker had to eat $200 to make it go away and I'm still hearing about it.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL VERBAL AGREEMENT NEGLIGENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED DOCUMENTATION FAILURE
The Court is APOPLECTIC. You had FIFTEEN MINUTES. Fifteen minutes to do what every agent learns in their first week of real estate kindergarten, which is GET IT IN WRITING. But no, you chose the path of the verbal handshake, the gentleman's agreement, the sacred trust between parties who had ALREADY SWAPPED OUT APPLIANCES LIKE THEY WERE PLAYING KITCHEN ROULETTE. This seller changed the closing date THREE TIMES, performed a washer-dryer switcheroo, and then ambushed you with refrigerator hostage negotiations at the eleventh hour, and your response was to trust her word? Reginald once trusted a contractor who promised granite countertops and received LAMINATE, and The Court has never recovered, which is why I now require notarized documentation before accepting a dinner invitation. As established in Maytag v. That One Seller Who Definitely Knew What She Was Doing, 2019, verbal credits spoken into the void of a title company lobby are worth exactly what your broker had to pay to make this go away. Your fatigue is understandable, your seller was a menace, but you handed her the ammunition and she USED IT. The Court finds you guilty, sentences you to never utter the phrase let me call the buyers without your phone already recording, and orders that you text yourself the words GET IT IN WRITING every morning until Reginald says otherwise. Court is adjourned because Order the Roomba has detected crumbs in the deliberation chamber and frankly that takes priority.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Verbal Void Violation

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