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CONFESSION #0726 — WRONG ADDRESS
Saturday, July 25, 2026
The offer came in under asking. About 12 grand under, but the sellers were motivated so we're moving, we're getting the inspection scheduled, we're getting the title work started, and I'm the one who pulled the MLS listing and sent it to the title company except I pulled the wrong one. Same street name, different city. There's a Maple Drive in two different towns in this county (because of course there is) and I sent the title company the address for a completely different property that happened to also be for sale. They ran title on someone else's house. Full search, full report, billed us $400 for work that's now useless. The actual sellers are waiting, the buyers are antsy because their rate lock expires in 8 days, and I have to call the title company and explain that I basically just had them research a stranger's property for no reason. The woman there, Janet, she just went silent on the phone. Not mad-silent, more like she was recalculating whether she wanted to keep working with me. Which, honestly, fair. I paid the $400 myself, didn't tell my broker, and we got it closed 2 days before the rate lock but Janet still sends my emails to her assistant now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CARTOGRAPHIC NEGLIGENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED MAPLE-BASED CONFUSION
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer audacity of confusing two Maple Drives as though street names are some kind of suggestion rather than SACRED GEOGRAPHICAL IDENTIFIERS. Reginald himself once drove to the wrong Maple Drive in 2017 looking for a foreclosure auction and ended up at a child's birthday party where he was asked to leave after attempting to place a bid on the bounce house, SO HE UNDERSTANDS THE CHAOS THESE DUPLICATE STREET NAMES CAUSE, but that does not excuse you. You made Janet — JANET — go silent on the phone, and The Court has met Janet at a closing in 2019 and she is a SAINT who once caught a wire fraud attempt while eating a yogurt, and now you have BROKEN HER TRUST so thoroughly that she routes your emails to an assistant like you are some kind of digital leper. The $400 you paid out of pocket is not penance, it is a CONFESSION FEE, and the fact that you closed two days before rate lock expiration does not redeem you, it merely means you stumbled across the finish line covered in your own title-search shame. The Court hereby sentences you to forever triple-check every address you send anywhere, and also to send Janet flowers — NOT from a grocery store, REAL ONES — and this ruling is final because Reginald must now go yell at a map.
Maple Street Malpractice
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