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CONFESSION #0634 — STAGING DISASTER
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The photos looked great. That was the whole problem. Stager sends me the shots, I approve them, we go live. Listing's up for three days before I actually walk through in person and realize the stager used her own furniture. Like, her actual personal furniture from her apartment. Which she needed back. By Friday.
We had a showing Saturday at 10 AM. Open house Sunday.
She kept saying she told me it was temporary, and maybe she did? I get a lot of emails. But I'm standing there Thursday night with a completely empty living room and a seller who's calling me every 20 minutes asking why I sound weird.
I rented furniture from one of those corporate housing places, cost me $1,200 for the weekend. The couch was this industrial gray thing, looked like a dentist's waiting room. We got one offer, 15 under asking.
I still use that stager. She's good. I just read my emails now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT FURNITURE ABANDONMENT AND CONDUCT UNBECOMING A LICENSED EMAIL RECIPIENT
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the defendant's admission that they "get a lot of emails" as though this were some kind of DEFENSE. Reginald also gets a lot of emails, mostly from Williams Sonoma and a man in Portugal who believes I owe him a timeshare, but Reginald READS THEM because that is what PROFESSIONALS DO. You approved staging photos without confirming the furniture would remain present for the actual selling of the home, which is like approving a marriage without confirming the other person knows they're engaged. The Court cites the landmark decision of IKEA v. Personal Responsibility, 2019, in which it was established that "temporary furniture is a cry for help." And a DENTIST WAITING ROOM COUCH? The Court once sat on such a couch awaiting a root canal and it changed something fundamental in Reginald, something that cannot be unchanged. You lost fifteen thousand dollars because you could not be bothered to scroll past the J.Crew sale alerts, and frankly the seller calling every twenty minutes showed more investigative initiative than you did at any point in this transaction. The fact that you still employ this stager suggests you have learned nothing, but the fact that you now read your emails suggests you have learned exactly one thing, which The Court supposes is progress. ORDER IN THE COURT, Order has just bumped into the witness stand again and Reginald must attend to jurisdictional matters immediately.
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