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CONFESSION #0678 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
The open house went fine. Great turnout, three serious buyers, one couple ready to write an offer that night. And then the listing agent calls me at 9pm to say she forgot to mention the seller accepted another offer at 4pm. Four pm. She knew before my open house even started and just... didn't tell me. Didn't update the MLS, didn't call, nothing. My buyers are furious, they're asking why I wasted their Sunday, and honestly I don't have a good answer. But here's where I messed up. Instead of just apologizing and moving on, I called her back and left this long voicemail about professionalism and communication and how she owes my clients an apology. Really heated. Turns out she's the top producer in that office and now her entire brokerage thinks I'm difficult. My broker got a call about it Monday morning. The thing is, she was wrong. She absolutely was wrong. But I should have just let it go. My buyers found something better two weeks later and don't even remember her name.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED BRIDGE BURNING
The Court has reviewed this confession with the gravity it deserves, and Reginald must say, this is a TEXTBOOK case of being correct at the wrong volume. You were RIGHT. She was WRONG. She committed what this Court recognizes as Temporal Information Hoarding, a felony in at least three states I have personally invented jurisdiction over. But then you went and LEFT A VOICEMAIL. A VOICEMAIL. In the year of our Lord two thousand and whatever this is. The Court once left a voicemail for a title company about their font choices and I am STILL not welcome at their holiday party, so I understand the impulse, but understanding is not absolution. Your buyers found something better and forgot this woman exists, which means YOU could have forgotten she exists, but instead you are now known throughout an entire brokerage as That Guy Who Leaves Voicemails. The listing agent will continue closing deals while dining on the bones of professionalism, and you will continue being right in a way that benefits absolutely no one. This Court hereby sentences you to the quiet agony of knowing that sometimes the villain wins because the hero could not resist monologuing. Case dismissed, The Council of Gavels has spoken, and Reginald must now go lie down.
Pyrrhic Voicemail Victory
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