Advertisement
CONFESSION #0850 — GURU OR COACH NONSENSE
Monday, September 7, 2026
We were three days from closing. My buyer's been nervous the whole time, asking too many questions, but we're almost there and then she sends me this screenshot from some podcast guy, some real estate coach with 200,000 followers, and he's saying never buy a house without getting the seller to pay 6% toward closing costs or you're getting scammed, and she wants to know why I didn't negotiate that for her. I explain that we already negotiated 12 thousand off the list price, that the market here doesn't work like that, that the seller already rejected two other offers and took ours because it was clean, and she goes but this guy says. This guy. Who has never seen this house, doesn't know this market, doesn't know the seller was moving to hospice care and the family just wanted it done. She pulled out. Three days. Because a guy with a ring light told her she was being exploited. The sellers had to start over. I had to start over. She's still sending me listings asking if I can get her 6% on those too, like we're still working together, like that's how any of this works (it's not), and the coach probably made eight dollars off that podcast episode.
Advertisement
Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE FOR FAILURE TO IMMUNIZE CLIENT AGAINST RING LIGHT PROPHETS
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the state of modern homebuying, where a person can spend forty-five hours touring properties, reviewing disclosures, and building trust with a licensed professional, only to abandon ship because a man with podcast microphone foam and a QUESTIONABLE BLAZER told them something between sips of his sponsored athletic greens. Reginald once lost a vintage gavel to a similar situation when his antique dealer mentioned a YouTube appraiser said it was overpriced, and I still wake up at 3 AM thinking about that gavel, SO I UNDERSTAND YOUR PAIN, but understanding does not equal absolution. You should have prepared this buyer from day one with a comprehensive media literacy waiver, perhaps a mandatory forty-eight hour quarantine from all social platforms before any offer submission, and honestly a light psychological screening. The fact that she is STILL SENDING YOU LISTINGS asking for six percent on properties she has not seen in markets she does not understand while the original sellers family was literally processing HOSPICE GRIEF suggests you failed to establish the fundamental boundary that a client-agent relationship is not a hostage negotiation mediated by content creators monetizing confusion. The influencer made eight dollars and you lost a closing and the family lost precious time during an already devastating chapter, and The Court holds you partially liable for not building a firewall between your buyer and the algorithm. This Court is adjourned because Reginald needs to go leave a one-star review on that podcast immediately.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.2/10 INFLUENCER MALPRACTICE ENABLEMENT

Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.

Submit Anonymously → Subscribe to the Newsletter
Advertisement

← Back to the Full Docket