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CONFESSION #0746 — THE BUYER WHO NEVER BOUGHT
Sunday, August 2, 2026
The inspector found something. Structural issue, nothing crazy, but enough that the buyer wanted a credit. Seller agreed to twelve thousand off. Done, right? No. Buyer comes back, says actually they want the seller to fix it instead. Seller says fine, hires a contractor, gets it fixed in three weeks. Buyer says they don't trust the contractor, wants their own guy to re-inspect. Their guy finds something else, unrelated, some minor electrical thing. Buyer wants another eight thousand. We're two months in now. I've shown this person maybe 30 houses over a year. They've written offers on four. This is the closest we've ever gotten. Seller walks. Buyer calls me crying, says they really loved that house, asks if I can get them back to the table. I did. Seller agreed. Buyer ghosted the closing.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED BUYER CULTIVATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS THE MOST ENABLING BEHAVIOR I HAVE WITNESSED SINCE MY COUSIN KEPT LENDING HIS LAWNMOWER TO A NEIGHBOR WHO OPENLY HATED HIM. Thirty houses. THIRTY HOUSES. That is not a client relationship, that is a hostage situation where you have developed Stockholm Syndrome and your captor does not even have the decency to show up for the ransom exchange. You brought them back to the table TWICE after they had already demonstrated the negotiating style of a raccoon with commitment issues, and then they GHOSTED THE CLOSING as if a legally binding real estate transaction was a Hinge date they got bored with during appetizers. The Court cites the landmark case of Doormat Realty v. People Who Clearly See You Coming, 2019, in which it was established that rescuing a deal more than once for a buyer who has already sabotaged it constitutes professional self-harm. I myself once tried to help a difficult party seventeen times before realizing they were simply a chaos agent sent to test me, and that party was a municipal zoning board, so at least there was paperwork. This Court hereby orders you to delete this person's number, touch grass, and understand that some closings are meant to be ghosted BY YOU FIRST. The gavel has spoken and Reginald is taking the rest of the afternoon off because this one hurt.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Terminal Enabler Syndrome

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