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CONFESSION #0703 — STAGING DISASTER
Friday, July 17, 2026
The seller called while I was on vacation. Monday 3pm: she says the staging company is there early, is that okay. Tuesday 9am: she sends a photo of her living room. There is a taxidermied peacock on the mantle. Tuesday 9:12am: I call the staging company. They say she requested it specifically. Tuesday 9:15am: she tells me her late husband loved peacocks and buyers should know the house has good memories. Tuesday 2pm: first showing cancelled. Buyer's agent says their client has a bird phobia. Wednesday: second showing. Feedback says quote the dead bird was distracting. Thursday: seller agrees to move the peacock. Friday: she moves it to the primary bedroom. On the bed. Saturday open house: twelve people came through. Three of them only wanted to see the peacock. Zero offers. The peacock is still there. We're into week six.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE SUPERVISION OF DECEASED FOWL AND ACCESSORY TO BEDROOM-BASED TAXIDERMY TERRORISM
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the cascading failures on display. You were on VACATION, counsel, while a stuffed peacock was mounting a hostile takeover of this listing — and Reginald uses the word "mounting" with GREAT DISCOMFORT given its current bedroom placement. Let the record show that when a seller requests a specific taxidermied bird from a staging company, that is not a design choice, that is a CRY FOR HELP, and you answered that cry by apparently doing NOTHING for six weeks while this feathered corpse migrated through the home like some sort of dead bird Roomba. The Court once had a client who insisted on displaying her collection of decorative plates featuring wolves, and I told her NO, because I am a JUDGE and I understand boundaries, unlike SOME people in this courtroom. You have allowed three separate humans to attend an open house specifically to gawk at poultry remains, which means you are no longer selling real estate, you are operating an unlicensed natural history museum with a For Sale sign. This Court hereby orders the immediate removal of the peacock to a location no closer than forty feet from any MLS listing, and further orders you to explain to this widow that her late husband's memory would be better served by a PRICE REDUCTION than by a bird that is currently committing crimes against the primary suite. The gavel has spoken and Reginald must now go lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.8/10 Feathered Fiasco

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