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CONFESSION #0739 — COMMISSION CATASTROPHE
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Her daughter started asking questions. That's how it fell apart. The buyer was ready to close, we're three days out, and her adult daughter who lives in Phoenix or somewhere comes to visit and suddenly has opinions about the inspection report we already negotiated through (we got them to replace the water heater, it was a whole thing) and she's calling me at 9 pm asking about the foundation cracks that the inspector literally wrote were cosmetic, hairline, normal settling, and I'm reading her the exact language from the report and she's like well my contractor friend said. Your contractor friend. Who looked at photos on your phone. In Phoenix. The buyer pulls out, I lose both sides of the commission because the listing agent was me too, we're talking about 24 thousand dollars gone because someone's daughter got bored during her visit and wanted to feel useful. The sellers had already put a deposit on their new place. They're threatening to sue everybody including me somehow. The daughter went back to Phoenix on Sunday. Never even saw the foundation in person.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF LONG-DISTANCE AMATEUR FOUNDATION ANALYSIS AND PHOENIX-BASED INTERFERENCE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and frankly Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME AT A CONDO IN 2019 except it was a nephew from Scottsdale and he had concerns about the HVAC ductwork based on a TikTok video. Let the record show that the daughter in question committed what legal scholars call "Flyover State Meddling" as established in Nobody Asked You v. Your Contractor Friend Who Looked At Phone Photos, 2022. You lost twenty-four THOUSAND dollars because someone's bored adult child needed a project during her weekend visit and decided YOUR TRANSACTION was her personal true crime podcast. The inspector, a LICENSED PROFESSIONAL who was PHYSICALLY PRESENT, wrote the words "cosmetic" and "hairline" and "normal settling" and yet we are supposed to defer to a man in Phoenix who squinted at a JPEG. The Court finds this daughter guilty of Emotional Tourism and sentences her to actually read an inspection report before opening her mouth, though we all know she will not. You, agent, are guilty only of being in the splash zone when chaos decided to vacation. The sellers threatening to sue you is like blaming the weatherman for rain, and The Court is now going to go stare at a wall because this has triggered something. CASE DISMISSED, Reginald must leave immediately.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.9/10 Phoenix Menace

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