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CONFESSION #0696 — THE LISTING THAT WOULDN'T DIE
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Her attorney got involved. Over a doorbell. A ring doorbell that the seller took with them when they moved out, which technically was attached to the house, which technically means it conveys. Buyer wanted three hundred dollars. Seller said no, it's mine, I paid for it. Buyer's attorney sends a letter. Seller's attorney sends a letter back. We're now twelve days past closing because nobody will release the funds.
I called the seller and said can you just give them the three hundred dollars and she said "It's not about the money, it's about principle."
It's always about principle.
Her listing sat for eight months. Eight months. We did three price reductions. The first open house, a guy asked if the basement had ever flooded and she said "define flooded." I had to leave the room.
The buyer eventually dropped it. The seller kept the doorbell. She left me a two star review because I "didn't advocate hard enough."
I advocated plenty. That's the whole problem.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED PRINCIPLE INVOCATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF DOORBELL HOSTAGE-TAKING
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the phrase "define flooded." Reginald once had a client ask him to define "mold" and I had to excuse myself to scream into a decorative pillow for eleven minutes. This seller held an entire transaction hostage over a Ring doorbell — a SURVEILLANCE DEVICE that probably captured footage of seventeen delivery drivers and one raccoon — because of PRINCIPLE. Let the record show that "principle" is Latin for "I am difficult and everyone in my life knows it." The basement flooding question alone warrants a mistrial of this woman's entire personality. Eight months on market, three price reductions, and she still had the AUDACITY to leave a two-star review as if YOU were the problem, as if YOU personally installed that doorbell with malicious intent. The Court finds it telling that the buyer eventually surrendered, which means this seller now owns a doorbell that witnessed her own moral bankruptcy. You advocated plenty, and that IS the whole problem, because advocacy for the unreasonable is a punishment unto itself, as established in Zillow v. Common Sense, 2021. The Court sentences this seller to eternal escrow and awards you full custody of your own sanity. ORDER THE ROOMBA HAS BEGUN CIRCLING THE BENCH WHICH MEANS REGINALD MUST NOW ADJOURN.
PRINCIPLED DOORBELL TERRORISM
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