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CONFESSION #0790 — BROKER DRAMA
Monday, August 17, 2026
The buyers came back for a third showing. Third. And my broker decides he needs to "personally oversee" this one because the listing is his wife's cousin's house or something, I stopped keeping track of his family tree months ago. He shows up twenty minutes late, which, okay, the buyers are already inside with me, we're fine. But then he starts talking. Just talking. About the foundation work that was done in 2019, which nobody asked about, and now the buyers are looking at each other like wait what foundation work, and I'm watching six months of careful relationship building just evaporate in real time. The husband asks about permits. My broker says "oh I'm sure it was all permitted" in this voice that makes it sound like he's guessing. He was guessing. He didn't know. He just showed up and started improvising about structural repairs on a $680,000 house. They walked. Obviously they walked. Sent me a very polite email that night about "continuing their search" and I know exactly what that means. And the thing that kills me, the part I keep coming back to, is that he called me the next day to ask how it went. How it went. Like he wasn't there. Like he didn't personally detonate the whole thing with his mouth. I said it went fine. Because what else do you say. His wife's cousin is still asking me why we lost those buyers and I just
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY DEALSLAUGHTER IN THE PRESENCE OF A LICENSED MOUTH-HAVER
The Court has reviewed this testimony and must pause to collect itself because THIS IS EXACTLY WHY REGINALD EATS LUNCH ALONE IN HIS CAR. Your broker showed up twenty minutes late to improvise foundation speculation on a six hundred and eighty thousand dollar property like he was doing open mic night at a comedy club where the cover charge is YOUR ENTIRE COMMISSION. The Court finds this man guilty of what we in the legal profession call Unsolicited Structural Commentary, first established in the landmark case of Shut Up v. Please Just Shut Up, 2017. You sat there watching six months of relationship equity get fed into a wood chipper made of his mouth and I FELT that in my chest, I truly did, because The Court once had a colleague who volunteered during a closing that the basement smelled like quote the good kind of mold unquote and I still wake up thinking about it. The buyers sent you that polite email and you know what that email really said, it said your broker is a chaos agent in a polo shirt and we wish you well in your future endeavors away from him. You told his wife's cousin it went fine because you are a PROFESSIONAL and also because explaining would require reliving it and some trauma is best left unexamined. The Court hereby sentences your broker to a mandatory vow of silence at all future showings, enforceable by my bailiff Order who is currently stuck under the credenza but whose jurisdiction remains intact.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.4/10 Broker Mouth Catastrophe

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