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CONFESSION #0728 — REAL ESTATE SCHOOL VS. REALITY
Sunday, July 26, 2026
The seller changed her mind. Three hours before closing, which I didn't even know you could do (you can, apparently, if you're willing to eat the costs, which she was), and the reason she gave — I'm still not over this — was that her daughter's boyfriend said the market was going to go up 30 percent next year, and this boyfriend is 24 and works at a gym, not even manages a gym, works at one, and she trusted him over me, over the comps I pulled, over the appraisal, over the buyer who was paying $12,000 above asking already. The buyers had already scheduled movers. Already paid a deposit on the movers. The wife called me crying, not angry crying, confused crying, like she genuinely didn't understand how this was legal, and I had to explain that it is, technically, and she kept saying "but we signed things" and I kept saying "I know" because what else do you say. Real estate school taught me about escrow timelines. Nobody mentioned the daughter's boyfriend.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF UNSOLICITED GYM-BASED FINANCIAL ADVICE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the audacity of a 24-year-old whose primary expertise is wiping down ellipticals being consulted on market trajectories over a licensed professional with ACTUAL COMPS. This reminds The Court of Kettlebell v. Fiduciary Responsibility (2019), in which a personal trainer's opinion on mortgage rates was deemed "not even admissible as background noise." Agent, you are guilty not of the cancellation itself but of existing in a profession where a woman can look at twelve thousand dollars above asking, look at a signed contract, look at YOU, and then think "but what does Chad who sells protein shakes think?" The movers, Agent. THE MOVERS HAD A DEPOSIT. Reginald himself once lost a decorative fruit bowl in a move gone wrong and it took YEARS to recover emotionally, so do not speak to me of deposits. You stood there saying "I know" like a person watching their house burn while holding a single cup of water. The daughter's boyfriend is not the villain here — he is merely the instrument of chaos, the barn door on the wall of rational decision-making, which as this Court has REPEATEDLY stated should be abolished from all homes. VERDICT STANDS, and Reginald must now leave to compose a strongly worded letter to no one in particular.
Gym Bro Economics
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