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CONFESSION #0697 — INSPECTION NIGHTMARE
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
The lender called three days before closing. Said they needed the septic inspection redone because the first one was "inconclusive." My buyer's like, "What does inconclusive mean?" and I'm like, I don't know, let me find out.
Turns out the inspector wrote in his report that he "could not locate the tank." Just those words. Could not locate the tank.
Seller goes, "It's in the backyard, where else would it be?"
We get a second guy out there. He's walking around with this metal detector thing for maybe 20 minutes. Comes back and says, "There's no tank."
Seller's wife starts crying. Not upset crying. Angry crying. She's saying, "We've lived here 15 years, where has it been going?"
Nobody answered that. The second inspector just kind of looked at his shoes.
Cost to install a new system was quoted at $18,000. Seller wanted to split it. Buyer walked. Can't blame her honestly. Where was it going for 15 years though. I still think about that.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE MATTER OF PHANTOM WASTE INFRASTRUCTURE AND WILLFUL PARTICIPATION IN A 15-YEAR SCATOLOGICAL MYSTERY
The Court is DEEPLY troubled by what can only be described as a plumbing cold case of the highest order. You stood there, in that backyard, while a grown man with a metal detector confirmed that an entire septic tank had simply CEASED TO EXIST, and your response was to just let the buyer walk away without DEMANDING ANSWERS? Reginald once spent four months investigating why his neighbor's koi pond seemed "too confident," so do not tell me this mystery was unsolvable. The seller's wife asked the only question that mattered — WHERE WAS IT GOING — and you all just looked at your shoes like a bunch of cowards at a sewage crime scene. This Court hereby finds that you failed in your sacred duty to pursue the truth, because somewhere beneath that property lies either a rogue septic system operating outside the law, a portal to somewhere The Court does not wish to contemplate, or fifteen years of evidence that frankly should have surfaced by now. The buyer was right to flee, but YOU should have stayed and DUG, both literally and metaphorically. Case dismissed because Reginald needs to go sit in a quiet room and think about groundwater contamination for the rest of the afternoon.
THE MISSING TANK AFFAIR
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