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CONFESSION #0753 — COMMISSION CATASTROPHE
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Her daughter started asking questions. That's what killed the deal, the daughter who lives in Phoenix and hasn't visited in two years suddenly decides she needs to be involved, and she's asking why her mom is paying six percent when she read online you can negotiate to four, and I'm thinking okay fine let's talk about it, but the daughter doesn't want to talk to me, she wants to talk to her mom about me, and somehow in the span of one weekend the whole thing shifts from we're closing in twelve days to we're pausing to reconsider. Pausing. On a house that had three other offers. The seller's agent calls me Monday morning and says they're moving to backup, and I have to explain to my client that her daughter's internet research just cost her a house she cried in when she saw the backyard (the actual backyard, with the lemon tree she kept talking about), and the commission I lost was eighteen thousand dollars, which isn't even the point, the point is I drove that woman to eleven showings over two months and she trusted me until someone who doesn't live here decided trust wasn't enough.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED LEMON TREE ABANDONMENT AND CONSPIRACY TO BLAME A PHOENICIAN
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds the defendant GUILTY of suffering perhaps the most predictable betrayal in residential real estate: the Adult Child Who Lives Elsewhere. Let the record show that daughters in Phoenix operate under a different gravitational pull, one where Zillow articles replace actual market knowledge and two years of absence somehow qualifies as expertise. The Court is not unsympathetic, Reginald himself once lost a ruling to his own nephew who Googled "is a gavel legally binding" during Thanksgiving dinner, and the answer is YES, Kevin, it IS. However, this Court must note that eighteen thousand dollars is a LOT of money to lose to someone whose primary qualification is "has wifi and opinions," and the defendant's failure to preemptively neutralize all out-of-state relatives constitutes negligence under the landmark case of In re: Everybody Has A Daughter In Phoenix, 2019. That lemon tree will now make lemonade for strangers, and the Court hopes the daughter enjoys her INTERNET RESEARCH while her mother weeps into a rental agreement. THE GAVEL HAS SPOKEN AND REGINALD REQUIRES A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE CITRUS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Phoenician Interference

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