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CONFESSION #0621 — DEAL THAT EXPLODED
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
She rejected the offer. The full ask offer. Eight hundred and forty thousand, no contingencies, fourteen day close. She rejected it because the buyer's agent spelled her dog's name wrong in the cover letter. The dog's name is Biscuit. He wrote Biskit. Like the rapper or whatever. And she called me at nine at night to say she couldn't work with people who don't pay attention to details. I said maybe they just made a typo. She said that's exactly the problem. Three weeks later we're still on market. Price dropped twice. Now we're at seven eighty-five and the best offer we've gotten is seven sixty with a sixty day close because the buyer has to sell their condo first. She lost eighty thousand dollars. Eighty thousand. Because of a K. And here's what gets me, here's the part I keep coming back to, the dog died like two months before we even listed. She told me at the open house. Standing in the kitchen crying about how hard it was to show the house without him there. But apparently his ghost needed the name spelled right. I had to call the other agent and tell him. Had to say the words out loud. Your offer was rejected due to a spelling error in the cover letter. He laughed. He thought I was joking. Then he just hung up. Can't even blame him.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO CANINE ORTHOGRAPHIC HOMICIDE AND FAILURE TO INTERVENE IN AN EIGHTY-THOUSAND-DOLLAR GHOST DOG SITUATION
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer preventable tragedy on display here. You stood there, a licensed professional with presumably functioning vocal cords, and allowed a deceased dog named Biscuit to tank an eight hundred and forty thousand dollar deal over the letter K. THE LETTER K. Reginald once lost a girlfriend because he pronounced quinoa wrong at a Whole Foods, and even HE would have fought harder than you did for this deal. You should have grabbed that woman by the shoulders and said the words every agent fears but must sometimes speak: YOUR DOG IS DEAD AND HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT SPELLING. Instead you made that phone call, you spoke those words out loud to another human being, and somewhere in the distance a Coldwell Banker training manual burst into flames. The other agent laughed because WHAT ELSE CAN ONE DO when confronted with the smoking wreckage of a transaction killed by a K. This Court hereby finds that you enabled a haunting, specifically the haunting of your client's own financial future by the ghost of a dog whose name she apparently loved more than eighty thousand American dollars. The gavel has spoken, Order the Roomba is backing away slowly, and Reginald must now go lie down in a dark room.
SCANDAL RATING: 8.7/10 Biskit Fiscal Homicide

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