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CONFESSION #0616 — HOA HORROR
Sunday, June 14, 2026
She rejected the offer. Not the seller, the HOA president. Said the buyer's car was too old. A 2019 Camry. She said it would bring down property values if it was parked in the driveway, and she wasn't going to approve the sale until the buyer agreed in writing to keep it in the garage at all times. My buyer said fine, whatever, she'd park in the garage. Then the HOA president asked what color her couch was. Because apparently there's a rule about window treatments and she wanted to know if the couch would be visible from the street and if it would clash with the exterior paint scheme. We closed three weeks late because of a couch color. The buyer repainted her couch. I didn't know you could paint a couch. The HOA president died two months later and nobody enforces anything now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO DECORATIVE TYRANNY AND FAILURE TO INTERVENE IN SOFA-BASED OPPRESSION
The Court is APOPLECTIC. A 2019 Camry — a CAMRY, the beige cardigan of automobiles — was deemed insufficiently prestigious for a DRIVEWAY? Reginald himself drives a 2017 Buick LaCrosse and has NEVER been asked to hide it, though admittedly The Court has received some pointed looks from a neighbor who shall remain nameless but whose name rhymes with Schmeverly. But THIS — this confession reveals you stood idly by while a furniture fascist held a transaction hostage over COUCH PIGMENTATION. The buyer PAINTED her couch! Do you understand what that means? That woman's soul died so escrow could close, and you just watched it happen like a bystander at a HOA-sponsored execution. The Court finds it deeply troubling that you seem almost AMUSED by the HOA president's subsequent demise, as if the universe itself rendered judgment — which, to be clear, is MY job, not the universe's. As established in Zillow v. Common Sense, 2021, an agent has an affirmative duty to tell busybody HOA tyrants to pound sand, or at minimum to protect their clients from having to commit upholstery crimes. You did neither. The gavel has spoken, Order the Roomba is circling menacingly, and Reginald must now go lie down because this confession has given him a tension headache directly behind his left eye.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.3/10 Couch Crimes Accomplice

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