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CONFESSION #0663 — SHOWING GONE WRONG
Thursday, July 2, 2026
We lost the earnest money dispute. Eight thousand dollars gone because my buyer decided the backyard was too small after we'd already done inspections, after we'd negotiated repairs, after we were two weeks from closing. She walked through the yard maybe six times before we went under contract. Six times. And then suddenly it's too small for her dogs.
The seller's agent called me and I couldn't even argue because what am I supposed to say. My client measured the yard. That's what happened. She went out there with a tape measure and decided 40 feet wasn't enough and I had to write the termination letter knowing we had no contingency left to stand on.
The arbitration took three months. Three months of emails and documentation and I had to sit in a room with the seller's agent who kept saying she understood but her client was retired and counting on that money. Like I didn't know that. Like I was the one who decided the yard was suddenly a problem.
My buyer keeps calling me about new listings. Keeps sending me links. Wants to know if I've seen the one on Maple with the big lot. And I haven't told her I can't work with her anymore because I need the business but every time her name pops up on my phone I just stare at it for a few seconds.
The sellers had already bought their next house. That's the part that stays with me. They'd already closed on a condo in Florida.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO CANINE-MOTIVATED CONTRACT ABANDONMENT AND FAILURE TO ENFORCE THE SACRED COVENANT OF YARD MEASUREMENT
The Court has reviewed this confession with the same measured restraint Reginald brings to all proceedings, which is to say NONE WHATSOEVER because this is an OUTRAGE of the highest order. Your buyer walked that yard SIX TIMES, counsel. Six times! That is more than The Court has visited his own mother in the past calendar year, and yet somehow forty feet of God's green earth became insufficient only AFTER inspections, AFTER repair negotiations, AFTER those poor sellers had already committed to a Florida condo where they were presumably planning to enjoy their retirement without being FINANCIALLY KNEECAPPED by someone who cannot visualize dog logistics. This Court cites the landmark decision in Labrador v. Spatial Awareness, 2019, which clearly established that if you bring a tape measure to a backyard, you have forfeited the right to act surprised by the results. And now she sends you Zillow links! She sends you the one on Maple with the big lot! The AUDACITY, the sheer psychological WARFARE of making you participate in her next victim selection process while you sit there watching her name illuminate your phone like a small rectangular harbinger of doom. The Court understands this paralysis intimately, as Reginald once spent four months unable to fire a contractor who kept calling granite "granit" in text messages, so judgment here is rendered with full awareness of cowardice as a human condition. But counsel, you must sever this professional relationship before she measures another yard, before another retired couple watches their condo dreams dissolve, before The Court is forced to intervene PERSONALLY. VERDICT RENDERED, and The Court must now leave because Order the Roomba has entered chambers and Reginald does not trust that machine's intentions.
Insufficient Backbone Syndrome
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