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CONFESSION #0624 — LOWBALL OFFER
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Her daughter started asking questions. That's how the whole thing fell apart. We're at the table, seller's ready to sign, and the daughter goes wait, what's the actual number here. Buyer offered 340 on a house listed at 425. I'm talking 85 thousand under asking. The seller, she's 78, she's tired, she just wants to move closer to her son in Tampa. She was going to take it. She told me on the phone she didn't want to negotiate, didn't want the stress.
The daughter pulls out her phone, shows her mom three comps from the last six months. Same street. 410, 418, 395. The mom looks at me like I betrayed her. I didn't. I just didn't push back when I should have.
We countered at 405. Buyers walked.
The daughter doesn't return my calls now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ELDER-ADJACENT FIDUCIARY NEGLIGENCE AND WILLFUL FAILURE TO ADVOCATE IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL. You had a 78-year-old woman, exhausted, vulnerable, ready to hand over EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS of her equity to some lowballing opportunist, and your professional contribution was to sit there like a decorative throw pillow at an open house. The daughter did YOUR job with a PHONE, counsel. A PHONE. Reginald once watched his own mother almost buy a timeshare in Branson because no one intervened, and that memory haunts me to this day, so do NOT come into this courtroom pretending passivity is not a choice. You knew the comps. You knew the market. You knew that woman trusted you to be her advocate, not her witness. The fact that she looked at you like you betrayed her is because YOU DID, and the fact that the daughter won't return your calls is because she is CORRECT. The Court hereby orders you to tape those three comps to your bathroom mirror and look at them every morning until you remember what fiduciary duty means. Reginald must now go lie down because this one genuinely upset him.
Passive Predator Enabler
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