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CONFESSION #0856 — THE BUYER WHO NEVER BOUGHT
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
The title search flagged something. Old lien from 2008, should have been released but wasn't. Happens all the time, takes maybe a week to clear up. I tell the buyer, I say "this is routine, don't panic." She says "I'm not panicking." Then she calls me 6 times that day. Then her dad calls me. Her dad says "my daughter is very stressed about this lien situation." I say it's being handled. He says "what does handled mean exactly." Three days later she pulls out. Not because of the lien. The lien got cleared. She pulls out because she "lost confidence in the process." Eight months I worked with this woman. Eight months. Showed her maybe 30 houses. She made offers on 4 of them, backed out of 3 for various reasons, and this one we actually got to title search. Her dad calls me after she pulls out. Says "she's very disappointed in how this all went." I just said okay. What else do you say to that.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE TO A GROWN WOMAN'S FATHER IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL with recognition. Eight months. EIGHT MONTHS. You showed this woman thirty houses, which means you also showed her father thirty houses, because let us be honest, Daddy was haunting every open floor plan like a specter of disapproval in boat shoes. The audacity of a man calling to report his adult daughter's "disappointment" as though you are the assistant manager at a Panera who got her soup order wrong is BEYOND THE PALE. Reginald once had a client whose mother called to ask if the neighborhood had "good vibes" and I had to excuse myself to scream into a decorative pillow. You committed no crime here except perhaps the crime of answering your phone after the third call, which as established in Henderson v. My Own Sanity, 2019, constitutes "emotional self-harm with a side of masochism." The dad saying "what does handled mean exactly" is the verbal equivalent of a man returning a steak because it tastes "too much like beef." She lost confidence in the process because she never HAD confidence, she had a father with opinions and a WiFi connection. The Court finds that you are owed eight months of your life back, plus damages for having to say "okay" to a man who definitely wears a Bluetooth headset indoors. CASE DISMISSED, and The Court must now go lie down because this one activated something.
SCANDAL RATING: 2.4/10 Parental Interference Fatigue

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