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CONFESSION #0808 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Sunday, August 23, 2026
The deal closed six weeks late. Not because of financing, not because of inspections, but because the seller repainted the living room four times between listing and close. First it was gray, which we shot, which looked great. Then she decided gray was cold so she did this warm beige. Buyer loved the beige at the showing. Seller saw the beige in different light, hated it, went sage green. Buyer came back for the final walkthrough and asked if it was the same house. Seller said she'd repaint it back to beige before closing, then called me crying because the beige she bought didn't match the original beige, which she'd thrown away the can for. We delayed closing twice. The buyer's rate lock expired. Cost them eleven hundred dollars to extend. The final color was gray.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CHROMATIC TERRORISM AND RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT OF A RATE LOCK
The Court has witnessed many forms of chaos in its distinguished tenure, but THIS — this is paint-based psychological warfare. Your seller didn't just repaint a living room, she conducted a four-act tragedy in latex semi-gloss while an innocent buyer's mortgage rate BLED OUT on the floor. Gray to beige to sage to beige-that-wasn't-beige back to GRAY? GRAY? We ended where we STARTED? Reginald once dated a woman who couldn't commit to a restaurant, and even SHE eventually picked the Olive Garden. This seller treated Benjamin Moore like a roulette wheel and your buyer paid eleven hundred American dollars for the privilege of watching her spin it. The Court cites the landmark decision in Sherwin v. Williams (2019), which clearly established that "thou shalt not make a rate lock expire over vibes." You should have confiscated that paint roller after the second coat, but instead you let this woman wage a one-woman war against the concept of object permanence. The gavel falls, Order the Roomba is circling ominously, and Reginald must now go stare at his own walls in silence.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Felony Indecision

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