The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly, Reginald needs a moment. You stood there, THREE DAYS from a twelve million dollar closing, while some IT goblin fed your chain of title into whatever digital woodchipper they keep in the server room, and your response was to simply ACCEPT that the seller was on a BOAT in PORTUGAL? The Court has seen desperation, but this is something else entirely. This Court once had a Roomba — Order, my bailiff — malfunction during a critical ruling and I did not simply throw up my hands and declare Portugal had won. I ADAPTED. You should have chartered a helicopter, hired a notary with sea legs, or at minimum sent a carrier pigeon with legally binding intent. Instead you sat there receiving TEXT MESSAGES about wire transfers like some kind of transaction hostage. The precedent set in Zillow v. Common Sense, 2021 is CLEAR: when technology fails, human beings must become temporarily unhinged in pursuit of closing. The Court finds that your buyer deserved better, your seller deserved a satellite phone, and that IT guy deserves to be subpoenaed into the sun. Reginald has spoken, and Reginald must now go lie down because this has triggered memories of a refinance situation The Court does not wish to discuss.