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CONFESSION #0654 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Monday, June 29, 2026
The buyers came back for a third showing. Nice couple, mid-thirties, very serious about the property. I'm in the kitchen talking them through the recent updates when I hear this sound from upstairs. Like a crack, then a thud. Then the husband goes "uh" in this weird flat way. I come around the corner and there's a hole in the ceiling. Not small. Like the size of a dinner plate, maybe bigger. Insulation everywhere. And standing in the middle of it all is this kid, maybe 8 or 9, who apparently came with the seller's sister who was supposed to be out of the house. The kid had crawled into the attic through a closet hatch. The attic that wasn't rated for any kind of weight. Sellers blamed me for not securing the property. Buyers walked. The repair estimate was twelve hundred dollars but the listing sat for another four months.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE SUPERVISION OF UNAUTHORIZED CEILING PENETRATION BY A MINOR
The Court has reviewed this catastrophic failure of property management and finds itself DEEPLY DISTURBED by the sheer gravitational audacity on display. A child, UNSUPERVISED, crawling through an attic hatch like some kind of feral raccoon with opposable thumbs, while you stood in the kitchen presumably gesturing at granite countertops like they could save you from liability. Reginald once had a nephew who attempted similar maneuvers at a Thanksgiving gathering and that boy is now banned from three states and most load-bearing structures. You allowed a property showing to devolve into what can only be described as a live-action ceiling autopsy, complete with insulation confetti and the hollow thud of buyer confidence hitting the floor alongside that child. The sellers blame YOU, and while The Court finds their parenting-by-sister arrangement equally offensive to basic reason, you were the licensed professional who failed to secure what is essentially a vertical trap door leading to structural humiliation. Four months of market rot because you did not think to ask the simple question: IS ANYONE CURRENTLY ASCENDING INTO THE RAFTERS. The gavel has spoken and Order the Roomba is circling in what I can only interpret as disgust.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.2/10 Gravitational Dereliction

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