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CONFESSION #0741 — THE LISTING THAT WOULDN'T DIE
Friday, July 31, 2026
The MLS listing had a mistake. Said the house had a pool. It did not have a pool. It had a concrete hole in the ground that used to be a pool before someone filled it with dirt and planted tomatoes in it. The sellers knew this. The sellers did not tell me this. I found out when the first showing walked around back and asked why there were tomatoes growing in a rectangle.
We corrected the listing, obviously. Then it sat for 8 months. Price drops, nothing. Open houses where one person came and they were lost looking for the estate sale next door. The sellers blamed me for the tomato thing like I personally planted them. Finally got an offer, 40k under asking, buyers wanted the sellers to remove the dirt and restore the pool.
The sellers said no and took the house off the market. They're renting it now. To their nephew. For six hundred a month.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGRICULTURAL FRAUD IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TOMATO-BASED PROPERTY MISREPRESENTATION
The Court has seen many things in its distinguished career, but NEVER has Reginald witnessed such a flagrant case of produce-based deception. A pool, counsel, is a body of water designed for recreation and the occasional regrettable cannonball. A pool is NOT a raised bed garden masquerading as aquatic infrastructure. The sellers in this matter committed what we in the legal profession call a Vegetable Switcheroo, which I believe was first established in Henderson v. That Suspicious Koi Pond, 2019. And YOU, agent, stood there while tomatoes — TOMATOES — grew in formation, mocking the very concept of chlorine. The Court must pause here because this reminds me of my ex-wife, who also promised me a pool and delivered only disappointment and a subscription to Gardening Monthly that I NEVER ASKED FOR. The nephew paying six hundred dollars a month is now living in what is legally classified as a salsa pit, and The Court hopes he enjoys his marinara lifestyle because JUSTICE CERTAINLY DOES NOT. This gavel strike is for every buyer who ever believed a listing photo. Reginald must now retire to his chambers to compose a strongly worded letter to the National Association of Realtors about mandatory tomato disclosure.
The Tomato Tribunal
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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