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CONFESSION #0640 — REAL ESTATE SCHOOL VS. REALITY
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
The inspector found something. Of course he did. Termite damage in the garage, which okay, that's not great, but the seller knew. The seller absolutely knew because there's a receipt from 2019 for a termite treatment in the kitchen drawer. In the kitchen drawer. Just sitting there. And when I asked the listing agent about it she goes oh I didn't know about that. You didn't know. It's in the drawer. The drawer you opened when you were showing me the house.
Real estate school they teach you about disclosure forms. They teach you the checkbox. Check yes or no, has there been termite damage. They don't teach you that someone will look you dead in the face and say they didn't know about the receipt that's six inches from the microwave.
The repair estimate came back at four thousand dollars. My buyers want to walk. The seller won't credit more than fifteen hundred because he says the damage is old. The damage being old is not the point. The point is you lied on a legal document.
My broker keeps telling me to find middle ground. Middle ground. Between a lie and not a lie.
And the thing that kills me, the thing that actually kills me, is the listing agent already cashed her commission from another deal this week. She's fine. She'll be fine. Meanwhile I've been showing houses to these buyers since March and if this falls through I've made eight dollars an hour for five months of weekends.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY TRUTH PROXIMITY NEGLIGENCE AND DRAWER-BASED EVIDENCE TAMPERING IN THE SECOND DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and must now address the accused directly: you come before Reginald seeking absolution, but what you have actually done is WITNESS A CRIME AND THEN APOLOGIZE FOR NOTICING IT. The listing agent claims she did not know about a receipt located in a drawer she physically opened, which is the real estate equivalent of claiming you did not see the sun because you were too busy squinting. This Court once ruled against a ShowingTime notification for being passive-aggressive, so do not think for ONE MOMENT that Reginald will not also rule against you for your complicity in this drawer-based farce. Your broker wants middle ground between a lie and not a lie, and I must inform you that this middle ground is called PERJURY ADJACENT and it is where careers go to decompose quietly. The Court notes with CONSIDERABLE IRRITATION that you have calculated your hourly wage, which means you are already mentally preparing to accept this injustice, and frankly that kind of self-aware defeat reminds me of my third law school, which also asked me to accept less than I deserved. You should have photographed that receipt, forwarded it to the state licensing board, and then walked directly into the ocean for ever thinking middle ground was a place worth standing. THIS COURT FINDS YOU GUILTY of being too reasonable in the face of unreasonable people, and sentences you to file that ethics complaint you have been drafting in your head since paragraph two. Reginald has spoken and must now attend to a separate matter involving a garage that was described as detached but was in fact simply lonely.
Drawer Blindness Syndrome
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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