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CONFESSION #0646 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Thursday, June 25, 2026
The buyers walked after the inspection. Normal stuff, roof needed work, maybe 12 grand worth. Seller took it personally, which happens, but then she decided the house needed to be "cleansed" before she'd allow another showing. Not like spiritually, I mean she literally poured bleach on the carpets. White carpet, beige carpet, didn't matter. Said she wanted to start fresh. The whole place smelled like a pool for three weeks. We had to push the price down 15k just to cover replacing the floors. She fought me on that too, said buyers should appreciate cleanliness. I tried explaining that bleach damage isn't cleanliness, it's destruction, and she told me I didn't understand commitment. She accepted an offer last Tuesday. Twelve thousand under what we would've gotten before the carpet thing.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED CHLORINE-BASED PROPERTY SABOTAGE IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has seen delusion before, but THIS, this is the kind of commitment that makes Reginald want to lie down in a dark room. Your seller poured BLEACH on her own CARPETS because a roof inspection hurt her FEELINGS, and then had the AUDACITY to frame chemical warfare as HYGIENE. This is not cleanliness, this is what happens when someone watches too many home improvement shows while processing rejection poorly. The Court once dated a woman who alphabetized her spice rack by emotional significance, and even SHE would have recognized this as unhinged behavior. Your seller lost twenty-seven thousand dollars, TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, because she confused destruction with dignity and commitment with whatever this was. You stood there, a licensed professional, watching a grown woman waterboard her own flooring and calling it a fresh start, and The Court finds you complicit in failing to stage an intervention. Reginald hereby sentences this entire transaction to be stricken from the record of rational human commerce, and orders that the phrase "appreciate cleanliness" never be uttered in a real estate context again. The gavel has spoken, and frankly, The Council is nauseated.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.2/10 Chlorinated Grief Response

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