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CONFESSION #0715 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
We were in multiple offers. Good ones too, three of them over asking. Seller picks the best one, we go under contract, everyone's happy. Then she calls me the next morning and says she changed her mind about the chandelier in the dining room, she wants to keep it now. I tell her we already agreed it conveys, it's in the contract she signed twelve hours ago. She says she didn't realize it was her grandmother's. It wasn't her grandmother's, I'd been in that house six times and she bought it at HomeGoods, I watched her hang it during staging. Buyer's agent calls me, asks if everything's okay because her client heard the seller was having second thoughts. I have no idea how that got out. We renegotiate the chandelier for eight hundred dollars off the price, which costs the seller way more than the chandelier was worth. Closed three weeks later. She took the doorbell too.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CHANDELIER FRAUD AND UNLAWFUL GRANDMOTHER FABRICATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has seen some brazen acts of decorative revisionism in its time, but claiming a HomeGoods chandelier as a family heirloom is the kind of audacity that makes Reginald question everything he thought he knew about staging. This Court WATCHED YOU HANG IT, madam. This Court has EYES. The grandmother defense is inadmissible when the grandmother in question is named "HomeGoods Clearance Section, Aisle 7." Furthermore, the leak to the buyer's agent suggests someone in this transaction has loose lips, and The Court will not speculate but WILL note that chandeliers cannot make phone calls, so the math is simple. The eight hundred dollar renegotiation represents what we in the legal profession call "finding out after around," and frankly this seller deserved every penny of that loss. But the doorbell, THE DOORBELL, this is where Reginald must pause because I once had a neighbor who took a mailbox and I have never recovered, never, the betrayal lives in me still. The Court finds this confession deliciously petty and rules that all future staging items must be photographed next to a notarized statement confirming zero deceased relatives were involved in their purchase.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.2/10 Heirloom Fabrication Heist

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