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CONFESSION #0743 — HOA HORROR
Saturday, August 1, 2026
We were three days from closing and the HOA president shows up at the final walkthrough (which he has no legal right to do but the seller just lets him in, doesn't even question it) and he starts measuring the fence with a tape measure he brought from home and announces that the previous owner installed it six inches too far into the common area back in 2019 and there's $14,000 in accumulated fines that were never disclosed because they'd been sending notices to an old email address nobody checked. The buyer's attorney calls me screaming about clear title and the seller's attorney is saying the HOA can't prove the fence location because their original survey was done by a company that went bankrupt and lost all their records, but the HOA president (who I later find out runs a car wash and has zero surveying credentials) keeps insisting he knows where the property line is because his father helped pour the original concrete markers in 1987. The title company puts everything on hold. The buyer's rate lock expires. We lose the deal. The fence is still there. Nobody's moved it. I drive past that house sometimes and the fence hasn't moved six inches in either direction and that man is still president of that HOA and I just keep driving.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED FAILURE TO PREVENT TAPE MEASURE TERRORISM AND CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF HOA TYRANNY
The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I HAVE TRUST ISSUES WITH ANYONE WHO OWNS A TAPE MEASURE. Let the record show that an unauthorized civilian with car wash credentials and ancestral concrete knowledge was permitted to derail a federal transaction, which is what The Court has decided to call real estate closings now. You stood there, you watched a man whose primary expertise is vacuum hoses and air freshener dispensers MEASURE A FENCE WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A LICENSED SURVEYOR, and you did not tackle him. I once ruled against my own nephew for bringing a level to Thanksgiving dinner uninvited, because tools in the wrong hands are weapons of chaos, and this HOA president understood that better than anyone. The seller's attorney wants to talk about bankruptcy and lost records, but The Court wants to talk about how you still drive past that fence, you STILL DRIVE PAST IT, haunted by six inches that may or may not exist, and honestly that is the most honest thing anyone has said in this courtroom all week. Per the landmark decision in Homeowner's Association of Shady Pines v. Everyone's Sanity, 2019, the only party truly at fault is whoever invented the HOA in the first place, but since they are unavailable, you shall bear witness to this verdict. The Court must now adjourn because I am being informed that Order the Roomba has located the original 1987 concrete markers under my credenza and I need to go investigate immediately.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Six Inches Of Sorrow

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