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CONFESSION #0812 — WRONG ADDRESS
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
We lost the earnest money dispute. Eight thousand dollars gone because the title company pulled the wrong parcel number and nobody caught it until the buyers showed up to their final walkthrough and there's a different family eating dinner in the kitchen. Different house. Same street name but one town over. The listing said Oak Street and the parcel was for Oak Street but there's an Oak Street in Riverside and an Oak Street in Riverside Heights and those are apparently two different municipalities that share a school district which is why the tax records looked right.
The buyers are screaming at me like I personally built two streets with the same name. Their lawyer is calling my broker. My broker is calling the title company. The title company is saying it's not their fault because the MLS listing had the correct address and someone transposed a number when they pulled the deed. Who transposed it. Nobody knows. Could have been me. Could have been the listing agent. Could have been someone at the county.
The actual house they wanted is still available by the way. Still on market. The sellers there have no idea any of this happened. We could just start over but now the buyers don't trust anyone and honestly I don't blame them. They drove forty minutes to see a stranger's pot roast.
Eight thousand dollars. The dispute went to arbitration and we lost because technically the purchase agreement referenced the parcel number not the street address. Which is insane. But legal apparently.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CARTOGRAPHIC NEGLIGENCE IN THE SECOND DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED PARCEL CONFUSION
The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly Reginald needs a moment because this is the most SPECTACULAR display of municipal chaos I have witnessed since the infamous case of Cul-de-Sac v. That Other Cul-de-Sac, 2019, where a family accidentally purchased their own neighbor's garage. You allowed EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS to evaporate into the jurisdictional void between Riverside and Riverside Heights, two places that should NEVER have been permitted to coexist, and The Court holds the founding fathers of both municipalities in contempt. The buyers drove forty minutes to witness a stranger enjoying pot roast, and I must pause here because I too once arrived at what I believed was my own home only to find it was a Panera Bread, but that is neither here nor there. You cite the possibility that you transposed the number, that the listing agent transposed the number, that some phantom county employee transposed the number, but The Court does not CARE who transposed what because SOMEONE in this chain of allegedly professional humans should have noticed that the parcel contained AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FAMILY. The arbitration ruling that the parcel number supersedes the street address is technically correct and therefore the worst kind of correct. This Court hereby sentences you to personally rename one of the Oak Streets to something unambiguous like Regret Avenue, effective immediately, and I must now adjourn because Order the Roomba has entered chambers and is making concerning noises near The Council.
Pot Roast Purgatory
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