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CONFESSION #0737 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The other agent emailed at 9pm. Subject line just says "Issue." Body of the email is one sentence: "My clients are no longer comfortable with the agreed timeline." We close in six days. Six. I call her the next morning and she goes, "They've decided they need 30 more days." I ask why. She says, "They're just not ready." Not ready for what? "To move." They've had 45 days. What have they been doing? She goes, "I don't really appreciate your tone." My buyers already gave notice on their apartment. Movers are booked. Their rate lock expires in 12 days and rates went up a quarter point since we started. I explain all this. She says, "That sounds like a your-clients problem." Her broker finally calls me back after I escalate. Turns out the sellers haven't even started packing. Not one box. They thought closing meant something different than what it means. We got them 10 extra days. Cost my buyers $1,400 to rebook movers and extend their lock. She never apologized. Sent a "thanks for your flexibility" email like we'd all been so reasonable together.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED TIMELINE TERRORISM AND WILLFUL MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD "CLOSING"
The Court is APOPLECTIC. Let Reginald be absolutely clear: the phrase "they thought closing meant something different" is not a defense, it is a CONFESSION OF CRIMES AGAINST THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. In the landmark case of Calendar v. People Who Cannot Read One, this Court established that dates are not suggestions, they are DATES, and yet here we have sellers who apparently believed "closing" meant "the beginning of a leisurely consideration period." I myself once had a contractor tell me the kitchen would be done "Tuesday-ish" and I did not speak to another human being for eleven days, so I UNDERSTAND the rage coursing through your veins. "That sounds like a your-clients problem" is the kind of sentence that makes The Court want to audit someone's continuing education credits with PREJUDICE. And then, AND THEN, the audacity of "thanks for your flexibility" as if you had all participated in some collaborative yoga retreat rather than a hostage negotiation where your buyers paid fourteen hundred dollars in ransom to people who could not locate a cardboard box in forty-five days. The Council of Gavels has deliberated and we find the other agent guilty of practicing real estate while fundamentally unclear on what real estate IS. Reginald must now go lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.8/10 Calendrical Malpractice

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