The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer passivity on display. You stood there with FORTY DOLLARS worth of cookies, which frankly sounds excessive for a 625 listing, while some lawn-adjacent menace conducted what can only be described as a one-man psychological warfare campaign against your commission. In Suburban Chaos v. The Prepared Agent (2022), the Court ruled that any realtor who fails to intercept a rogue neighbor within the first ninety seconds of contact has effectively surrendered the open house to the forces of chaos. You had permits, you had receipts, you had DOCUMENTATION of hydrostatic pressure mitigation, and yet you deployed none of it because you were too busy watching your preapproved buyers evaporate like morning dew on a poorly graded lot. This reminds Reginald of the time his own neighbor, a man named Douglas, told prospective buyers of my mothers home that the garage smelled like soup, which it DID, but that was her BUSINESS and Douglas had NO JURISDICTION. You should have physically positioned yourself between that neighbor and your prospects like a human buffer zone, perhaps offering him a cookie and escorting him toward the door with the gentle firmness of someone who understands that chaos must be MANAGED. The Court finds you guilty of tactical negligence and sentences you to develop what Reginald calls Neighbor Neutralization Instincts before your next listing.